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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Audiobook Review: What She’s Having by Laura Moher
What She’s Having
Series: Big Love from Galway #2
Author: Laura Moher
Narrators:
Michelle Price
Paul Bellantoni
Published: August 20, 2024
Audiobook: 9 hours 44 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: August 16-24, 2024
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Audiobook Description:
She may be strong, but she’s not unbreakable.
July Tate is a force to be reckoned with—a big, strong blond with a heart the size of her whole town—but beneath her capable exterior lie the scars of a devastating lost love. To July, love equals vulnerability, and she can’t afford either.
Joe Anderson knew from the first moment he saw her that July was The One. Now, after years apart, he’s back, driven by the need to explain his disappearance. In search of the girl who filled his teenage dreams, he finds instead a powerhouse woman who steals his heart and soul.
Joe embodies everything July has been missing, and together they spark as brightly as ever. But with Joe around, July, who can usually outwork four men is suddenly making mistakes right and left. And that scares her. Because if July falls again, this time her beloved town could go down with her.
Jessica’s Review:
What She’s Having is the second novel in the Big Love from Galway series. I adored the first novel, so I was ready to listen to the second one. We have romance books with some spice to them that also tackle difficult subject matter. I was not expecting that when I listened to Curves for Days and was pleasantly surprised by that novel! Moher handles this mix extremely well!
While you needn’t have read Curves for Days, it does help. We have a different couple, Joe and July, that are the focus in What She’s Having versus Rose and Angus in Curves for Days.
I won’t go into the triggers in my review, you can go to the author’s website for that. https://www.lauramoher.com These issues are not detailed in the novel, but might be worth noting if you can be triggered easily.
I love that Moher has plus-sized main characters that are are realistic. They are realistic in the fact that deal with many kinds of real-life situations and the after effects.
I did have issues with the narrators in this book as they are the same narrators from the previous book. It was hard for me to separate the different storylines with the couple in this book from the first. **This is a ‘me issue’ and not a problem with the narrations.** I especially had issues with the male narrator as for me he was a perfect Angus in Curves for Days. Paul Bellantoni just captured Angus perfectly and I was crushing on Angus so much in the first novel! I think the same narrators made it hard for me to connect with July and Joe in this novel, especially when Rose and Angus made appearances.
These books have some spice to them! It’s almost too spicy for me, but not quite! I saw on Facebook that Moher had to mark the book with post-its when she gave it to her son so he knows where the sex scenes are so he could avoid them! And that post entailed what happened when her son took the book to a trivia night: It’s hilarious! If she was my mom, I don’t think if I would be able to read the sex scenes either! Too much detail for an adult child to read what their mom wrote, or even vice versa!
I am looking forward to the next book in the series which comes out in March 2025! I will definitely be listening to or reading it!
Many thanks to the publisher for granting me a copy to listen to and review! It was a pleasure to listen to the first two books in the Curves for Days series!
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Audiobook Review: A Daughter of Fair Verona by Christina Dodd
A Daughter of Fair Verona
Series: Daughter of Montague #1
Author: Christina Dodd
Narrator: Suzy Jackson
Published: June 25, 2024
Audiobook: 8 hours 23 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: June 18-25, 2024
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Audiobook Description:
Once upon a time a young couple met and fell in love. You probably know that story, and how it ended (badly). Only here’s the that’s not how it ended at all.
Romeo and Juliet are alive and well and the parents of seven kids. I’m the oldest, with the emphasis on ‘old’—a certified spinster at twenty, and happy to stay that way. It’s not easy to keep your taste for romance with parents like mine. Picture it—constant monologues, passionate declarations, fighting, making up, making out . . . it’s exhausting.
Each time they’ve presented me with a betrothal, I’ve set out to find the groom-to-be a more suitable bride. After all, someone sensible needs to stay home and manage this household. But their latest match, Duke Stephano, isn’t so easy to palm off on anyone else. The debaucher has had three previous wives—all of whom met unfortunate ends. Conscience forbids me from consigning another woman to that fate. As it turns out, I don’t have to . . .
At our betrothal ball—where, quite by accident, I meet a beautiful young man who makes me wonder if perhaps there is something to love at first sight—I stumble upon Duke Stephano with a dagger in his chest. But who killed him? His late wives’ families, his relatives, his mistress, his servants—half of Verona had motive. And when everyone around the Duke begins dying, disappearing, or descending into madness, I know I must uncover the killer . . . before death lies on me like an untimely frost.
Jessica’s Review:
Everyone read Romeo and Juliet in high school or knows their story. A Daughter of Fair Verona is a novel written with a basis of “What if…” Romeo and Juliet had not died at the end of their story? Needless to say, it wouldn’t be the ‘end’ of their story. And this story is narrated by their daughter Rosaline aka Rosie. And yes, she is named after that Rosaline!
I have always enjoyed the story of Romeo and Juliet and looked forward to reading this continuing story. I was sent a audio copy to listen to from the publisher and really enjoyed it! We have Rosie who knows her parents’ story as does everyone in Verona. Rosie is feisty, smart, and independent. And she despises poetry! She is also our narrator.
Romeo and Juliet have tried to find a suitable husband for Rosie several times, but in the end Rosie find a much better wife than she would have been. Until she meets her parents latest match in Duke Stephano. But he meets an untimely death and she therefore doesn’t have to marry him. The same night of the Duke’s death, Rosie has a love at first sight encounter. Rosie also becomes he suspect in the Duke’s murder, but then so many people had a reason to want the Duke dead.
This is a fun and entertaining murder mystery if you enjoy the Romeo and Juliet story. I found myself not liking Juliet’s love a first sight suitor, I was rooting for another to win her heart. A Daughter of Fair Verona ends on a cliffhanger, but the ending is just getting you ready for book two in the series. I find myself looking forward to it!
The narrator is Suzy Jackson and she was perfect to narrate this story: She brought Rosie to life with her total spunky attitude!
Many thanks to the publisher for granting me a copy to listen to and review! I really enjoyed it!
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