This is the most tear-jerking and gut-wrenching novel I’ve read so far. I have literally no words to disclose my sentiments when I was moving towards the end. Chapter 29 is the essence of the entire novel which made me bawl and squall and I wept bitterly at length uncontrollably.
If someone we love intensely dies in front of us, we mustered up our courage to endure the loss because life goes and we have to live with that sorrow for the rest of our life. But what if that person is alive but we are compelled not to touch him, see him or live with him forever. Then, how would it feel like. This is what exactly the novel is all about. The novel unveils the dreadful life of CFs who carry borrowed air, their painful treatments, strict and uncompromising regimen, their burning emotions, everything. The story revolves around Stella who is crossing swords with CFs each and every day to live a little more and Will who is diagnosed with CFs and B cepacia and want to cherish each and every moment of his life because he know that he is on the brink of death. How these two fall head over heels in love with each other. And at the end, Will's selfless love urged him to left her for the rest of her life so that she can live her life to the fullest. This line “I love him. And he’s about to leave my life forever so that I can have a life to live” is my most favorite line which stir my emotions and moved me thoroughly. This novel made me realize that how lucky we are but we don’t even know it.