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Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
3.0

To be clear, 3 Stars on the Goodreads system is still a pleasurable read.

I had several problems with this book. The hospital is more of a laid back boarding house instead of an actual hospital. The kids are allowed to roam and get close to each other where in an actual hospital setting they would never be allowed to take such risks. Several unrealistic instances took me outside of the story, which is never what you want to happen to your reader.
Stella and Will are both stereotypes. She is the type A girl and he is the rebel who doesn't care about anything other than what he wants at that moment. They're both a bit like manic pixies.

Without spoiling anything, this book also suffers from the "hide your gays" trope.
SpoilerWith spoilers, gay people DO exist for reasons other than to simply teach strait characters a lesson.


The ending also seems like it's a direct copy of another popular YA book-turned-movie
SpoilerThe Sun Is Also A Star
, just with CF kids.

It wasn't a bad read. I did like Stella's character, for the most part. I probably just don't like hospital romances that much.