No one from the outside ever wears one when they go through the decontamination process to enter Maddy’s house. 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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