![]() ![]() No masks of any kind, in fact, for the purpose of at least reducing risk. Why are surgical filtration masks never mentioned? The parallels drawn were gut-wrenching and skillfully utilized, regardless of how one might feel about the suicide-related aspects.Īnd here’s where my medical background swoops in like Nurse Ratchet and mercilessly underscores aspects I might have otherwise been able to ignore. I personally enjoyed the well-threaded references to Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince. It’s almost as though this is meant to be alternative reading for those who didn’t care for hyper-mature teenagers spouting existential literary quotes, (or for Nicholas Sparks-style sobfests, for that matter.) ![]() ![]() ![]() As some reviewers have noted, this feels like a deliberate diverging away from John Green’s famed work involving a dangerously ill teen-The Fault In Our Stars. I sometimes forgot this wasn’t aimed at a Middle Grade audience. Simple, serviceable prose with restrained vocabulary. She has a strong relationship with her doctor mother, and her full-time nurse, Carla, and is resigned to live more vicariously than actually. Maddy has lived her entire life isolated in the protective confines of her home, thanks to a condition that’s left her without a functional immune system. This story is told in first-person present-tense entirely from the POV of Madeline, who is turning eighteen in the first chapter. ![]()
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