Title: If I Stay (If I Stay #1)
Author: Gayle Forman
Publication
Date: May 2010
Publisher: Definitions
Format: Paperback
Pages:
199
Rating: 4/5
Blurb: The last thing Mia remembers is the music. After the accident, she can still hear it. And she can see her damaged body being taken from the wreck of her parents' car - even though she doesn't feel a thing.
All she can do is watch as doctors rush to save her life, as her friends and relatives gather outside her room, as the boy she loves struggles to be near her.
As the next twenty-four hours unfold, Mia must come to terms with what came before the crash - and what would come after. And she knows she must make the most difficult choice of all. If she stays...
Blurb: The last thing Mia remembers is the music. After the accident, she can still hear it. And she can see her damaged body being taken from the wreck of her parents' car - even though she doesn't feel a thing.
All she can do is watch as doctors rush to save her life, as her friends and relatives gather outside her room, as the boy she loves struggles to be near her.
As the next twenty-four hours unfold, Mia must come to terms with what came before the crash - and what would come after. And she knows she must make the most difficult choice of all. If she stays...
Review: If I Stay is one of those books
that I’ve only ever heard good things about and in a similar fashion, Gayle
Forman is one of those authors that I’ve never heard a bad review of. This book
has won so many awards that I felt like it was about time that I finally read
it, especially after I’d picked it up and put it down again so many times.
I knew next to nothing about this
book. I knew it was contemporary teenage romance and that it had a sequel and
that was literally where my knowledge of this book ended. I’d seen it so many
times on Goodreads- as recommendations, in the ‘readers also enjoyed similar
books’ section and in so many different lists and I’d added to my ‘to-read’
list but I didn’t really know what it was about.
I was expecting a little bit of
story setting- the usual life before the big event sort of thing, but it pretty
much gets into the main issue of the book straight away. I loved how quickly
everything happened and how it was written as it made everything work really
well. For a while, the main character Mia (and therefore, you as a reader) is a
little bit unsure about exactly what has happened which adds to the tone of the
book perfectly. I loved how you weren’t told everything that happened in one
go, but how the past and present mixed together to paint a clearer picture.
I loved reading from Mia’s point of
view and I especially enjoyed reading about her love of music and how that all
related to her family and her relationship with Adam. I loved Adam as well- I
was worried that he was going to turn out to be a horrible boyfriend or
something but he didn’t. He was honestly the sweetest human being alive and I
loved how it was clear to see how much he cared about Mia and how far he was
willing to go for her.
I think one of my absolute
favourite things was definitely the ending. It just- wow, it broke my heart and
had me sobbing. I can’t wait until I can read the sequel- I really hope I enjoy
it just as much.
