This book was so good I read it all in one sitting. FFA was a really special book for me because it is about two teenagers battling a disease in an important organ. I myself am also fighting one called Ulcerative Colitis, it isn’t terminal like the one Stella and Will battle but it does come with a lot of pain, meds and hospital stays. While I have an autoimmune disease that attacks my colon, Stella and Will have Cystic Fibrosis, a hereditary disease that attacks the lungs. One of the things that comes along with CF is not being able to be within 6 feet of another CF fighter. When Stella and Will meet they find each other unbearable but eventually begin to like each other, the only problem is the 6 foot rule.

Warning: Spoilers ahead!!

I LOVED reading this book, it was sweet, cute and made my heart all warm inside (Which is good cause its so cold outside!!) . The character I could relate to the most is Stella because I am so regimented with my routine, especially when it comes to treatments and meds, and could see where her thinking was coming from. The part of the book that broke my heart the most was when Poe died. I definitely cried at that part, it was so unexpected and Stella had already lost so much. I knew CF patients are terminal but I still wasn’t expecting Poe to die. To be Honest I kinda thought Stella wasn’t going to make it, but she did and that made me very happy. My favorite part of the book was when Will and Stella ran away, everything about their little adventure was adorable and my heart melted when Will saved Stella. I loved so many other parts too but this review is getting long!
Overall I Loved this book so much, I really hope more authors will write books like these because there are so many people battling diseases every day and we don’t get much representation in YA, it really helps us all to see that we are not alone.

I absolutely loved this book. Made me cry in the end :(

This will be one of my favorites forever, I’m obsessed with it. If you want a beautiful sad story this is for you. The movie is done flawlessly and I cry every time I watch it. Such and amazing book.

I appreciate the ending of the story as it gives you hope and meaning. This brought much awareness to Cystic Fibrosis and what patients and families have to give up just to survive. If you've just finished a disappointing book, make this your next read!

The love story is fully shoehorned into the book. I like the friendship between Stella and Poe, how they have been united by having to spend a lot of time in the hospital since they were little, and the things they share with each other. However, the relationship with Will seems to me to have neither head nor tail. Everything happens super fast and out of the blue. Basically, Will and Stella go from not knowing each other (and almost not being able to stand each other) to deadly in love with each other in a couple of days.

Well, I also want to talk about the good things about this book. I loved that this book was dedicated to spreading appreciation and awareness to readers about what people with CF are going through and really putting ourselves in their shoes and making us feel a little bit (because we can't even imagine the pain they go through) about it. However, it is worth mentioning that I did not like many of the actions of the protagonists in relation to their illness at all, and there were times that I saw them as two teenagers in love who made irresponsible decisions like the time he and Stella ran away and she didn't want to take the new lungs just to be with him. Sacrificing your life for someone you met for a couple of days? Really?!

Je pensais lire quelque chose à la TFIOS, et forcément dans un sens, ça l'est. Mais la fin n'en reste pas moins belle, presque pire (le presque, c'est parce que je suis encore en plein débat avec moi même pour le savoir). En tout cas, je suis encore actuellement entrain de me noyer dans mes larmes, l'autrice à bien réussir à m'émouvoir.
(je n'ai pas vu le film, mais s'il est de la même trempe que le livre, franchement, je ne comprends pas pourquoi il s'est pris autant de haine. Le seul point négatif que je peux trouver, c'est la rapidité du roman, il se déroule sur un court laps de temps, mais en même temps, ça reste cohérent avec la situation)

I’m not certain how this book came to be our book club read. It’s a Young Adult romance based on a screenplay. Like The Fault in Our Stars, it’s yet another book about teenagers with a chronic/terminal illness.

Stella Grant and Will Newman are teenagers in a hospital for treatment for cystic fibrosis. The two begin a budding romance though, because of concerns about infection, they are, at all times, to remain at least six feet apart. Stella follows her treatment regimen religiously because she is hoping for a lung transplant; Will, however, is ineligible for such a transplant because he has contracted B. cepacia, a bacterial infection that is highly transmissible and drug resistant.

As is to be expected in YA romances, Stella and Will are opposites who are immediately attracted to each other though they do not make positive impressions when they first meet. Stella is the rule-follower and Will is the rule-breaker. Despite their differences, they make a connection and in a short time change the other’s outlook and make him/her a better person. “It’s like seeing everything for the first time. I didn’t know it was possible for a person to make old things become new again” (188). Yikes!

There are many unrealistic events. A nurse breaks confidentiality and tells Stella about Will: “’A CFer and then some. B. cepacia. He’s part of the new drug trial for Cevaflomalin’” (36)? Stella and Will and their friend Poe have the run of the hospital so that it becomes their playground? The birthday party scene is totally unrealistic! Stella has an infection and the doctor says that staff will keep an eye on it (98 – 99); the next time it’s mentioned, that doctor says, “’We need to take care of this. It’s too far gone’” (126)?! Stella has a surgical procedure under general anesthesia even though her lungs, functioning at only 35%, may not be strong enough. Nonetheless, hours after the procedure, she’s sprinting across the hospital, even up and down stairs (158 – 160)!?

There is also unnecessary melodrama. The narrative involving Abby is just too much, as is the plotline involving the one character of colour (who also happens to be gay). And don’t get me started on the scene on the ice. There is just too much emotional manipulation.

The book can be commended for raising awareness about cystic fibrosis, but I have concerns about the realism of the portrayal of the disease. CFers often have major digestive problems and mucous tends to be much more of an issue than any of the CFers in the book experience. It seems to me that we have a sanitized version of this genetic condition.

I understand that I am not the intended audience for this book so I should be less critical. I think, however, that young adult readers deserve more than manipulative, romantic tear jerkers with thin characterization and a totally predictable plot.

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Oké dit boek was zo geweldig, aaahhh . HUILEN