The book raises awareness for cystic fibrosis and does so by showing symptoms of the disease.(Let me know if you like this style of review in the comments!) To keep this review short and sweet, I’m going to list and elaborate on each pro and con I found in FFA. However, I didn’t find it to be faultless either. I never felt the need to skip words or pages because I never encountered a part in this book that felt like unnecessary filler. It was a really quick read for me and it gave me those contemporary feelings I was hoping for. 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? But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. 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. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial.

The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. 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. 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. Synopsis: Can you love someone you can never touch?

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