If I Stay By Gayle Forman I give ‘If I Stay’ four and a half stars. It was an emotional roller coaster of Mia’s life. Mia is the odd one in a family of punk rockers. She has recently been hospitalized because of a car accident that killed her family and she has to decide whether she wants to stay o...
I had seen the movie and enjoyed it. The book was a nice companion to fill in a few areas and make them more interesting. This book was like eating candy while soaking up the sun.
So, this is one of those books that, like The Fault in Our Stars, I conscientiously avoided even after it gained tons of good reviews and popularity, spawned a couple sequels/companion novels, and got adapted into a movie. I finally caved and read it for my Book Club, and discovered that I was prett...
I knew going into this book that it was going to be sad. I have to be in the mood for a good tearjerker and I certainly was when I settled in to read this one. I made sure I had nowhere to go the following day just in case this book kept me up until 3 am and left me a sobbing mess unfit for the publ...
WARNING: SPOILERS ABOUND Brief Background: Mia is a seventeen-year-old, talented cellist who has a promising musical future ahead of her. She has a loving, albeit slightly eccentric family, a steady boyfriend and a supportive best friend. That is, until she is the victim of a horrific car crash on...
I read this book at the behest of my daughter. She had seen the movie, and raved about it. It started well enough, then seemed a little lagging for my taste. Granted, it's a YA book, but still, I felt that it took too long to get to the point. There is sequel, 'Where She Went', which my daughter sai...
My rating: 4 stars (out of 5) A lot of the YA books that I’ve read lately imagine their protagonists in situations that the average YA hopefully isn’t in: embroiled in some dystopian marriage nightmare (The Selection); dealing with parents who beat them up/contemplating suicide (All The Bright Pla...
I did not like this book that much. I mean it was not bad at all, but it was not what I was expecting. I feel like I am missing something though because so many people liked it and found it really great. I think I will have to re-read it. The thing I really liked about this book was that music playe...
There are certain books that just emotionally drain you, and this was one of them. There are moments of sadness, moments of happiness, moments of pain, and moments of sweetness. It is a book whose story just stays with you. I love the way the story of If I Stay is constructed. It is told from M...
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