Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon(I copied/pasted this review from Goodreads.com I'm not sure I like this method....)
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Thanks to NetGalley and BooksandWhatnot.com for my preview of this book. My full review can be read at booksandwhatnot.com
To live your life--no matter what the risk--is the aspiration I took away from this thought provoking debut novel, Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon. Yoon has established a character who is believable and lovable in Madeline, a young girl who lives in a bubble because she has SCID, Severe Combined Immunodeficiency. She lives under the strict eye of her single mother (she lost both her husband and young son to a truck driver when Maddy was only four months old) and a nurse/caregiver, Carla. Madline has to remain in her air-controlled, germ free, lonely house. She has never left her house and has given up the notion of having friends, going to school and leading a "normal" life. When she was eight she watched as neighbors moved in and she knew she could not play with them. She had come to terms with her life. Until.....a boy moves in next door. All bets are off as she plunges head over heels in love with the boy of her dreams. Thanks to the Internet they are able to IM each other and form a symbiotic relationship.
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