Thank you to Simon and Schuster for providing this book in exchange for an honest review. 
 This is it. This is the amazing book that I have been waiting to end up in my hands, I just didn't know until I started reading, Since I had my reading slump, I have been hoping each book I read was going to be my next five star, knock me over, gushingly wonderful read. Up until now, none had fit the bill. 
 Enter: Extraordinary Means. 
 Lane's in the middle of everything important in his life - high school, SATs, college applications, a girlfriend - when he is sent to Latham House, a boarding school for teenagers who have developed TDR-TB: total drug resistant tuberculosis. With no treatment and no cure, he can't fathom that his life might be over. Then he meets Sadie and her friends - they are the cool kids, the troublemakes, who always look like they're sharing a private joke - and he realises there is more to Latham House and its inhabitants than their sickness, and he doesn't need to let it define him. 
 I loved this. I feel like I loved this from the moment I started reading, even though I'm sure I was at least a few pages in by the time I realised. It is a dual POV from Lane and Sadie, and their voices are both unique and just fascinating to read. They are very different: Lane is driven, studious and has never really had time for a social life while Sadie has been at Latham House so long that she actually feels like she belongs there - she's the trouble-maker, wise-cracker, the one who can get things. Having met each other once before at a summer camp in their early teens, after a rocky start based on a misunderstanding, the two become fast friends, a friendship that slowly smoulders and develops into something more. 
 The characters of Lane and Sadie, and her friends Marina, Nick and Charlie, are all so well constructed and they develop - especially Lane. The focus on friendship runs so strong in this book - it's about other things too, but I loved the focus on friendship and growth. I adored the writing as well - there's some pretty dark humour but overall it is wonderfully uplifting. 
 The problem? I knew things were too good to last. No spoilers but I feel like this is a book that falls in the Five Star Horrible category (thank you Kristy @ Book Nerd Reviews for that term!). It is worth it though, I promise.