Many of you might already have heard of this book co'z this is much talked about release when it came out. I've read this book one after the other in like, three days.
If I stay is the first book by Gayle Forman. The story of a girl named Mia, who is very talented in cello, basically they are a family of music. Her boyfriend Adam, who is a rising rock star and who loves her - yeah, she has a good life. The opening of the book was light where we are introduced of the relationship of Mia and her parents and younger brother Teddy. Also the importance of music that connects them. And then suddenly the story shifts tragically when the car accident happens that took her family and left her barely alive. It's like you are given a candy and took it again on your first lick. The story evolves at Mia's point of view while she watches her wreck body in the hospital, yes she has this astral projection or something like that where she watches what's happening outside her body. The story was told mostly on flashbacks, now and then back every chapter, i get confuse sometimes of what's happening but that's needed to understand Mia more and her family - the struggle, depression, courage and acceptance- and what she has to loose if she stay or go. It's her the decision if she will stay but Adam has an important part in the end - actually she already decided but then Adam did, ooops and there goes book two. I would say that it's a good book, i could not put it down - but something is missing, i can feel the loss of Mia's family, of Adam, of Kim her bestfriend but not of Mia considering she has lost her family.
Where She Went is the book two of If I Stay. The story is told on Adam's point of view after three years since the accident. What happens after Mia open her eyes in the hospital was told somewhere in the book but not the beginning because the story revolves on Adam's life after the accident, the struggle and depression after Mia left for Julliard in New York. Most of the story was in the span of like 2 days. Honestly. i like this book more than the first one, i cried a river with just a simple words spoken by both of Adam and Mia. This book is the closure for the story and for both of them.
