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A review by sarahscupofcoffee
Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
5.0
I am 26. I'm not in high school anymore and I cannot stay up late. My bedtime, even on nights when I don't work in the morning, is around 10:30 each night. If I'm lucky. Sometimes, I'll go to bed at 9. My point in sharing my sleep schedule with you is that I cannot pull all nighters reading anymore. I used to do it all the time in high school. I would stay up until 3 in the morning reading, most of the time in the bathroom so my parents didn't catch me. I stayed up until midnight and beyond twice while reading this book.
It's a short read, which is why I chose it. I needed a short and sweet book and thought this one would be perfect. It's less than 300 pages, it's supposed to be a sappy teen romance. Perfect.
This book is an emotional rollercoaster (as cliche as the phrase is). The characters are scarily relatable and the plot has twists and turns that will both melt your heart and make you want to throw up.
It's been a long time since I actually laughed out loud at a book. I'm a sap, so I cry while reading. That's nothing new. However, the amount of tears, the frequency of tears, and the topics that brought the tears on (not always what you think) were new. I felt actual fear for the characters, as well as relief and joy and a bunch of other emotions while reading.
I have to say **small spoiler alert - skip paragraph if you don't want to know**, that these authors got losing someone right. We lose a character in the book, which I expected judging by the topic of the book, but I wasn't expecting the accuracy that the authors exhibited. My husband died at the age of 23 a little over a year ago and the grief that is shown in this book is beyond accurate. I felt the way the characters did during some scenes and I cried because I felt represented.
Five Feet Apart is about sick kids falling in love. It's been done before, which is honestly sad. I read another review on this book and she said that it's "another book about childhood illness." I wanted to throw up because she's right. Despite what authors are trying to do in raising awareness, this genre is becoming a cliche. It's sad that the lives that these people (teens, kids, adults...) have to live through is becoming a cliche.
So, I encourage you to read this book. Not because it's in the romance genre (it's a damn good one though), but because it'll broaden your horizons and teach you things. That's what books are supposed to do, right?
It's a short read, which is why I chose it. I needed a short and sweet book and thought this one would be perfect. It's less than 300 pages, it's supposed to be a sappy teen romance. Perfect.
This book is an emotional rollercoaster (as cliche as the phrase is). The characters are scarily relatable and the plot has twists and turns that will both melt your heart and make you want to throw up.
It's been a long time since I actually laughed out loud at a book. I'm a sap, so I cry while reading. That's nothing new. However, the amount of tears, the frequency of tears, and the topics that brought the tears on (not always what you think) were new. I felt actual fear for the characters, as well as relief and joy and a bunch of other emotions while reading.
I have to say **small spoiler alert - skip paragraph if you don't want to know**, that these authors got losing someone right. We lose a character in the book, which I expected judging by the topic of the book, but I wasn't expecting the accuracy that the authors exhibited. My husband died at the age of 23 a little over a year ago and the grief that is shown in this book is beyond accurate. I felt the way the characters did during some scenes and I cried because I felt represented.
Five Feet Apart is about sick kids falling in love. It's been done before, which is honestly sad. I read another review on this book and she said that it's "another book about childhood illness." I wanted to throw up because she's right. Despite what authors are trying to do in raising awareness, this genre is becoming a cliche. It's sad that the lives that these people (teens, kids, adults...) have to live through is becoming a cliche.
So, I encourage you to read this book. Not because it's in the romance genre (it's a damn good one though), but because it'll broaden your horizons and teach you things. That's what books are supposed to do, right?