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Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
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did not like it
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Can't say I'm surprised I didn't enjoy this book but it was part of my "ŷ Reading Challenge" so I did it.

Definitely felt like another cliché YA romance with teenagers too sick to be in love and yet...

Not my cup of tea!
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Reading Progress

December 27, 2019 – Started Reading
December 27, 2019 – Shelved (Hardcover Edition)
December 27, 2019 – Shelved
January 2, 2020 – Finished Reading

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message 1: by A Robin Reads (new)

A Robin Reads A shame! I really liked the movie


message 2: by Nastassja (new)

Nastassja Peña Yikes forever


message 3: by Ally (new)

Ally People told me I’d like this movie so I watched it. Conclusion: people don’t know me. So ugh.


message 4: by S (new)

S Keynes Start watching the movie... never finish it 😐


message 5: by O'Colemain (new)

O'Colemain Yeah, I found the movie lukewarm so I'm not surprised the book wasn't great


message 6: by Jillian (new)

Jillian Idk why you did this to yourself LOL


message 7: by Laura (new) - added it

Laura I never finished it. And I like romance. It is just... Too cliched.


Emma queen


Melodie Conley I thought it was cute in some ways but i guess it's not that great i never saw the movie so I cant say what one was better


Louise S Wow, I really liked this book. I don’t know how people can’t like a such emotional and melancholic book🥺 If you didn’t like this I promised you haven’t set an eye on the book.


message 11: by [deleted user] (new)

I personally really *loved* this book (I cried like a lil' baby ;-;), but I can also see why you wouldn't like this.Tastes are different. We probably don't like a book that they did really enjoy.


Cherry Can some one tell me is this app for reading books?????


Tasha Hi Cherry this app (ŷ) is for tracking your books you can also participate in the goodreads reading challenge. However you may be thinking of Wattpad or Kindle.


Amanda I have a school assignment where I have to read two YA book published after 2017. This was the first one that sprung to mind since I have extensive experience with CF, but I just don't know how I feel about a book revolving around two teen CFers breaking protocol...


Samuel I totally agree w/ you. I have just read 50 pages in and I can't keep pushing myself. The movie was terrific tho.


message 16: by Qassem (new) - added it

Qassem  Soleimani I have not readn the book yet but i watched the movie
It was cool but some gloomy
Im toweny two but i have not felt in love with someone yet
I think im a robat😂
At the end i love book🙏


message 17: by Lisa (new) - rated it 5 stars

Lisa This book was amazing. I loved it. I don't know why so many people hate it.


Amanda Lisa wrote: "This book was amazing. I loved it. I don't know why so many people hate it."

Because it's about two extremely sick children deliberately breaking protocol and endangering their lives. The writing also wasn't great, but it's mostly the concept that's upsetting.


Claire Miss Norman - right, but that's realistic in many ways. As someone with a genetic disease (not CF) who's grown up sick, and who was, not very long ago, a sick teenager: sick teenagers are still - in every single sense - teenagers. We are people with the same thoughts and desires, and weaknesses. Teenagers don't always make the best or smartest decisions - when first experiencing being "in love" even less so, and being chronically ill is a constant grief process, and people grieving likewise don't always make the most rational or smart decisions. I can fully understanding being offput by the cliches, mediocre writing, or how closely it follows TFIOS. But regardless of how upsetting the concept of two sick children falling in love and making questionable decisions may be, I personally find the original commenter's statement of "teenagers too sick to be in love and yet..." frustrating. What part of being sick means someone no longer has the same emotions, desires, strengths and weaknesses that lead us to fall in love? When should those with serious disease from a young age experience love?

I don't necessarily think this book addresses all of these questions perfectly or in some cases even well, but it does address some very real concerns we go through. Namely, the choices we must make from a young age between living the life we have been given and making meaningful relationships and memories, even when it puts us at risk, and protecting our health when it means isolation and missing out on many, many important milestones and experiences. Teenagers already break many rules and boundaries and this becomes infinitely more complex to manage when your life is so heavily dictated by rules and protocols, such as when you spend extended time in hospital. If I waited until I wasn't extremely sick to consider dating or falling in love or getting into relationships, I would be dead. I will never not be sick, and that's difficult and frustrating - and it was the most difficult and frustrating as a teenager and in my first few years as an adult, for so many reasons - but it's the reality I, and many others, live in. I have conflicted feelings about some aspects of this book, but either way, I love that there are books beginning to talk about these experiences and subjects like growing up severely chronically ill.

Glorifying breaking protocol is of course not something I'd encourage, but discussing it happening - and framing a story around why this is such a difficult choice and one with significant complexity, and discussing the myriad of reasons and emotions behind why protocol is broken, is absolutely valid in my opinion. They are teenagers, who happen to be sick, and while they know there are potentially fatal risks to breaking the rules, that doesn't necessarily make it an easy choice not to. It was never an easy choice for myself or others, either. In some ways I wish it was, but knowing you are sick and at risk doesn't make watching life go by without you any less difficult or painful. It makes sense to me that this focuses on teenagers, too, as this is a time when for most of us these struggles are felt the most intensely.


jungkook’s wifey hi sorry im asking how to read ya ? i dont know how to use the app :(


Olivia Shulman You have got to be kidding me. How did you not like it? It is one of the best books I have ever read.


message 22: by Meg (new) - added it

Meg Starting this book today and as someone who has Cystic Fibrosis I don’t have high hopes that the CF community was represented well. Trying to have an open mind though


message 23: by Kay (new) - rated it 5 stars

Kay Jarschke I loved this book. It was great! How could you hate this book!!!


Kamil Grochowski shame.


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