Hi guys, I just finished Extraordinary Means and I realized I haven't posted a full book review in a while. I have so many thoughts about this book anyways that I might as well do one. Just for everyone who hasn't read this book, here's a little bit about it. There's a new strand of TB going around called Total Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (TDR-TB). It's highly contagious, so people who have it usually have to either be on house arrest or at a sanatorium, which is kind of like an institute filled with people with the disease. We follow Lane, who has just been diagnosed with TDR-TB and is moving into a sanatorium called Latham House. While he is there, he finds a girl from his past, Sadie, and the two become friends, but we obviously know more than just friendship occurs. 
 A lot of people have been comparing this book to The Fault in Our Stars (TFIOS), saying that it sounds like the same thing. This is a major pet peeve of mine, when people compare books of a similar genre saying that they're the same thing. If I have to hear one more person say that a dystopian novel is 'just like The Hunger Games', I will lose it. Although this book and TFIOS do have a lot of similar aspects, such as two diseased teenagers falling in love, they have a lot of different points as well. While in TFIOS Hazel's parents played a strong role in her life and she was allowed to leave the confinements of her house, the characters in Extraordinary Means rarely talk to their parents and can't leave the sanatorium. I wouldn't go to say that they're completely different and that no one should compare the two, I just think that people should stop giving Robyn Schneider so much flak and saying that she copied John Green. 
 Aside from that, I enjoyed this book but I did not love it. I'm starting to sense a pattern in Robyn's books that go something like this: Try-hard guy that's super focused on school meets manic pixie dream girl who couldn't care less and shows him that there's more to life than just studying, they date and then she basically leaves him, saying that he doesn't need her and the only reason he's attatched to her is because he likes the way he is around her better than his original self. Guy then has a 4-page spiel on how she's right with a sudden realization, then pledges to be the person he was with her. The end. Having read all of her books, I feel like this is getting really tiring because I feel as though it is the same story, just slightly different. I want her to try and vary her pattern, but I do enjoy her writing style. 
 If you want to read my full review with a spoiler section click here: Full Extraordinary Means Review 
 B L O G | I N S T A G R A M