Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott

Can you love someone you can never touch?

Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions.

The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals.

Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment.

What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?

Cover:  I absolutely love this cover, I think it’s beautiful.  It’s a simple but stunning cover.

I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this book sooner.  It came out November 2018 but I didn’t heard about it until January 2019 when I stumbled across the trailer for the movie.

And then I knew I needed to pick up the book- and realised that I had the book on my Kindle as an ARC from NetGalley.  So I picked it up and instantly knew it was a book I was going to enjoy.  What I loved most about it was that we got both protagonists points of view- Stella and Will.  I always find I love a book that bit more if it has more than one characters perspective. 

Both protagonists have CF- cystic fibrosis, and as such can’t get close to each other, or they risk infecting each other.

This book reminds me of a cross between The Fault In Our Stars by John Green and Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon, and I mean that in the best way.

This book really grabbed my attention and I loved that!  I think because it was a book that I hadn’t heard much about yet so went into blind.

Can’t wait to check out the movie.

5/5 stars.