Call me cliche, but I loved this book! Everything about it was positively thrilling and I would 100% read it again! Now, the topic of sick kids in love is something we've all seen before, but I'm a sucker for these stories. The relationship between Will and Stella was something I had never seen before. It was like they knew each other and could see each other's vulnerable side without even trying to look for it. Will makes himself out to be this "bad boy" who doesn't care about anything, including himself. When he says, "It's just life, Stella. It'll be over before you know it," I found myself suddenly drawn to him, because that is not something someone just says out of the blue. Will thinks he is hopeless and that looking for a cure for his B. cepacia is pointless. But then he meets Stella, this girl who needs to be in control of everything or she simply can't sleep at night. Everything about her is organized, from her life to her medcart. And their differences and how they are exactly opposite one another is so intriguing. Will practically gave himself over to her as soon as he met her, because he was simply so drawn to her that he couldn't stop himself.
But to stray from Will and Stella for a moment,this book really focused on a disease no one talks about and it deserves to be: cystic fibrosis. CF is a disease that really doesn't have a cure yet except for replacing your lungs with new ones. B. cepacia doesn't have a cure, either. This disease needs to be talked about, because how else will they find a cure for it?
I thought this book was wild, thrilling, lively, imaginative, exciting, suspenseful, and awe-inducing, and simply inspiring. Love wins above all.