Thursday, September 4, 2014

If I Stay by: Gayle Forman


Back Cover: On a day that started like any other. . .
Mia had everything: a loving family, a gorgeous, adoring boyfriend, and a bright future full of music and full of choices. Then, in an instant, almost all of that is taken from her. Caught between life and death, between a happy past and an unknowable future, Mia spends one critical day contemplating the one decision she has left---the most important decision she'll ever make.

Rating: 4/5

The story follows Mia after she and her family get in a massive accident. While Mia is an a coma she has an out of body experience where she is able to walk around the hospital and see everything that is happening while she is asleep. Now Mia has to make the biggest decision in her life. Should she stay? Or should she go?

Since this book is now a movie I decided that before I saw it I HAD to read the book! I still haven't seen the movie but the book was so great! When Mia's parents are killed on impact during the crash it brought upon me a shocking realization that life is so fleeting. Within a moment you can go from having everything to nothing. I feel like this book revealed to me that you need to live every day like your last because you never know when the people you love will be snatched away, or if you'll be snatched away. The author portrays perfectly the inner struggle in Mia that I believe all of us would go through if we had to decide whether we wanted to stay on the world or pass on the something else.

This book was a little slow and there were definitely no action scenes, but if you're a fan of The Fault in Our Stars you will fall in love with If I Stay!

-KayKay
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