Book Review and Movie Comparison of Five Feet Apart
Five Feet Apart
Authors:
Rachael Lippincott
Mikki Daughtry
Tobias Iaconis
Published: November 10, 2018
288 Pages
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Read: July 30- August 30, 2024
Jessica’s Rating: 5 stars
Book Description:
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?
Jessica’s Review:
I first read this book back in 2019, which was before the whole world changed. It was interesting reading this one again in a Post-Covid world: These kids were wearing masks and keeping six feet apart long before it became the ‘thing’ to do in 2020! LOL, but seriously, I looked at my review and can’t really say anything more than I did back then, so I will give the link to that review. And it was apparently a double review with Kim, so you’ll get her thoughts on it back then too.
And the book cover is just…. I love it!
Here is the link to both Kim and I’s reviews of Five Feet Apart.
Kim also recently re-read it and said she wouldn’t change a thing on her thoughts, though the teenage drama got to her a little bit more this time around. She still really enjoyed it!
Movie Comparison
Movie Trailer
Jessica’s Thoughts on the Movie Compared to the Book:
I thought they did good with the movie compared to the book. A lot of my thoughts on the book are the same for the movie. The biggest thing for me was that Poe seemed to be more of a minor character in the movie. I wasn’t as attached to him in the movie as I was in the book. I adored ‘book Poe’. Parts of the movie seemed rushed compared to the book. So when the movie got to a certain point through the end it just wasn’t as emotional for me.
I’d give the movie 4 stars on it’s own not comparing it to the book. Comparing the movie to the book, then movie would get 3.5 stars.Will I watch the movie again? No. But I do have a copy of the book.
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Book Review: The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott
The Lucky List
Author: Rachael Lippincott
Published: June 1, 2021
304 Pages
Reviewed By: Kim
Kim’s Rating: 3 stars
Book Description:
Emily and her mum were always lucky.
But Emily’s mum’s luck ran out three years ago when she succumbed to cancer, and nothing has felt right since.
Now, the summer before her senior year, things are worse than ever – Emily has wrecked things with her boyfriend, Matt, and her dad is selling the house she grew up in and giving her mum’s belongings away. The only person she has to talk to is Blake, a girl she barely knows since she and her dad moved back to town five seconds ago.
But that’s when Emily finds the list – her mum’s senior year summer bucket list – buried in the back of her closet. When Blake suggests that Emily take it on as a challenge, the two set off on a journey to tick each box and help Emily face her fears over losing her connection to her mum. As she starts to feel closer to her mother, so too does Emily’s bond with Blake deepen into something she wasn’t expecting.
And suddenly Emily must face another fear: accepting the secret part of herself she never got a chance to share with the person who knew her best.
Kim’s Review:
I do love Rachael Lippincott. I loved her first two books that she co-wrote and I was so excited when I saw this new book sitting on the shelf. Unfortunately, it doesn’t live up to the first two. It started out confusing so I felt lost from the beginning. I don’t want to give away the twist but it just felt so inconsequential to me. I think it would have been so much better if it hadn’t been YA. All that teen drama just brought everything down! And of course the high school, “oh I’ll love you forever! We’ll always be together!” automatically indicates that you won’t. Teen romance very rarely works out and it annoys me that everybody keeps believing it! It just killed this story for me. It had so much potential to be deep and emotional and it just all fell flat. I think Rachael needs to break out of YA because she has the potential to go full on Me Before You and be awesome at it … but not in YA. The teenagers ruined her book.
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Book Review: All This Time by Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott
All This Time
Authors:
Mikki Daughtry
Rachael Lippincott
Published: September 29, 2020
336 Pages
Reviewed By: Kim
Kim’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
Kyle and Kimberly have been the perfect couple all through high school, but when Kimberly breaks up with him on the night of their graduation party, Kyle’s entire world upends—literally. Their car crashes and when he awakes, he has a brain injury. Kimberly is dead. And no one in his life could possibly understand.
Until Marley. Marley is suffering from her own loss, a loss she thinks was her fault. And when their paths cross, Kyle sees in her all the unspoken things he’s feeling.
As Kyle and Marley work to heal each other’s wounds, their feelings for each other grow stronger. But Kyle can’t shake the sense that he’s headed for another crashing moment that will blow up his life as soon as he’s started to put it back together.
And he’s right.
Kim’s Review:
Duh, I was gonna read this book! I adored Five Feet Apart so much and Jessica and I were so excited when we saw this book. Yay, Prime Day deals! Of course I got the jacked up copy, but they fixed it so everything is ok now. Ivan also liked All This Time better since I didn’t come asking him medical questions every two seconds. All This Time was more on the fantasy side of things and I liked it! I enjoyed getting to know Kyle and Marley; it was sweet teenage love and I was getting some of the same vibes as I did from Five Feet. I suspected, but I admit that the twist kinda knocked me on my ass. I can’t really talk about my more critical opinions because I don’t want to give anything away. Right at the twisty chapter, my concerns were addressed very clearly so I was happy with the rest of the story. Overall, this is an emotional read with sweet characters and an interesting plot. Anyone who liked Five Feet Apart or Me Before You is gonna like All This Time. Plus a gorgeous cover!!
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