Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

YA Winner


Five Feet Apart

Can you love someone you can never touch?

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. 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. Six feet apart. No exceptions.

The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. 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.

Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment.

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?

Not really a spoiler but didn’t want to risk🙈 really touching and enjoyable read! Loved it.

(view spoiler)[ Only started yesterday morning, I just couldn’t put it down. Just finished it and the last 45 minutes or so had me in floods of tears. Such a touching story. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

I liked it too and there were several parts that were touching. I even had my wife watch the movie with me after I was done reading it.

What did you think of the movie Geoff? I actually saw the movie without reading the book and I just thought it was kind of average ..... put me off actually reading the book.

the movie wasn't too bad but nothing to really rave about. parts were very predictable (goes for the book too). Some of the details were missing which is normal and the ending was different... the book continues with a short jump to the future.

i thought it was ironic that this book actually made it on the list before the corona virus and we are reading while stuck at home and have been experiencing the six feet apart rule ourselves.

I read this last year. It was a good quick read. The book was definitely better than the movie. I only rated the book three stars though just because I thought it was lacking some of the emotion that the other YA novels had dealing with diseases and what not.

I really liked this book. I had already seen the movie. As usual I liked the book better then the movie. I was disappointed that the book and movie had such a different endings. I "read" it as an audio book which I don't normally do. I read it over a long period of time so I'm not sure if it's an easy read or not

Geoff wrote: "i thought it was ironic that this book actually made it on the list before the corona virus and we are reading while stuck at home and have been experiencing the six feet apart rule ourselves."
i thought the same thing!