4.7 stars! 
 Madeline Furukawa Whittier is a 17 years old girl who's sick. She's been sick since she was born. 
 Madeline has Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) - a rare disease better known as "Bubble baby disease". 
 "... I'm allergic to the world. Anything can trigger a bout of sickness. (...) No one knows the triggers, but everyone knows the consequences. According to my mom I almost died as an infant." 
 Due to her disease, Madeleine has to stay in a secure, disinfected environment, with filtered air. She can't be with other people. People, to be near her, have to go through a decontamination process, so that no germs, bacteria or virus may be in contact with Madeleine, trigger her illness and possibly kill her. 
 So, Madeleine stays in her home, with her mother (luckily, a Doctor) and her Nurse, Carla. 
 "I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years." 
 Madeline is a cheerful girl. She knows best than to desire things she can't have and she's glad for what she does have, so she lives in her little world, entertaining herself by reading books, blogging about books, taking classes online and making friends online. 
 Maddy has a very close relationship with her mother and is very close to Carla, who is more of a friend than a nurse. They are the only 2 people that are, physically, a part of her life. 
 "If my life were a book and you read it backward, nothing would change. Today is the same as yesterday. Tomorrow will be the same as today." 
 One day, Madeleine hears a moving truck and people talking next door. She has new neighbors. She's curious about them, so even thought she shouldn't, her curiosity gets the best out of her and she peeks through the window. 
 She sees a family of 4: a father, a mother, a daughter and then, a son - a blue eyed boy around her age, that looks up at her and smiles. A boy she hears his mother call Olly. 
 "In the Book of Maddy, all the chapters are the same. 
 Until Olly." 
 Olly breaks through Madeleine's world. He goes to her house and tries to get to know her, with no results. He finds a way to grab her attention and gives her his email, writing through his window glass. And then, they start emailing each other, and soon, they're chatting online. 
 They become close... everyday, Madeleine awaits eagerly for 8:00 pm, the time she's free to chat with Olly. 
 And as time passes by, Madeleine is Liking Olly more and more, each day... 
 Madeleine start's wishing for things she knows she shouldn't ... like meeting Olly, seeing him up close and being near him... 
 "For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have." 
 She talks with Carla about Olly coming to visit her. Even thought Carla knows the risks involved in such visits for Maddy, she ends up agreeing to it, as long as they take all the necessary precautions. 
 "Just because you can't experience everything doesn't mean you shouldn't experience anything." 
 "Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you." 
 "I think of Olly, decontamination-cold and waiting for me. (...) He's not safe. He's not familiar. He's in constant motion. He's the biggest risk I've ever taken." 
 So, meet they do. Olly goes through the decontamination process and he stays in the other side of the room, but he's there, in Maddy's little world. They talk and laugh. And he leaves after 20 minutes. 
 For the next few days Carla looks for any sign that Madeleine may have been triggered sick from the encounter with Olly. Finding none, they are allowed to continue with their encounters, once a week. 
 But, as time passes, Madeleine keeps wishing for more... more time with Olly, more closeness to Olly, more being a part of Olly's world... more things she can't have! 
 "Wanting just leads to more wanting. There's no end to desire." 
 But, Madeleine's world is all inside her house and Olly belongs to the outside world. As she finds herself falling deeper and deeper in love with Olly, how will she cope?! How can she ever make a relationship between her and Olly work? 
 "Ever since Olly came into my life there've been two Maddys: the one who lives through books and doesn't want to die, and the one who lives and suspects that death will be a small price to pay for it. (...) The second Maddy knows that this pale half life is not really living." 
 "Life is a gift. Am I wasting mine?" 
 "I was happy before I met him. But I'm alive now, and those are not the same thing." 
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 I so ADORED this book <3 ... And the Feels! OMG, the Feels! 
 I loved Madeleine. She was such a sweet girl, put in such a harsh situation... how do you deal with loving a boy who lives in a world you can't step into, or you might die?! 
 I liked Olly too. I would have liked to read his POV too (the book is all written in Maddy's POV), but I guess we kind of had a glimpse into his POV as we read his mails and chatting online. 
 I just Loved Maddy and Olly together!... they were SO SWEET, and I loved how worried and protective Olly was of Madeleine. 
 I absolutely loved how DIFFERENT this book was! 
 There's a Rare Disease; a half Japanese, half African American main character; there's Illustrations on the book as we read; and even the way the story went was different from what I expected. 
 I would have liked a longer, more detailed ending, though. 
 And this book is going to be turned into a Movie! How Great is that :) 
 I'll end up by saying, in case you haven't noticed, that I really enjoyed reading this book! and I totally recommend it for Romance lovers.