Ratings:4.5 of 5 stars
Cascade of emotions just poured on me throughout the book.I literally buried my face and cried a little at the end.Seriously, it was painfully beautiful.This book is bittersweet. Hot and cold, funny and depressing, heart-warming and sob-inducing. It's the perfect roller-coaster, a prime example of how powerful writing can be. I adored everything about it except that there is no real plot to the book.
If I Stay is a journey through life and death, in the eyes of a young girl who has lost just about everything.Although I’d read the synopsis multiple times, I never really “got” what the story was until I read the first chapter when it all happens.Mia and her family, father, Mother and younger brother go for a drive on a sunny morning after a light snowfall the night before. In a moment, their world is turned upside down in the form of a devastating car crash.Mia finds herself watching her mangled body being pulled from the crash and follows what takes place in the hospital as she decides if she should stay in this life or to move on like the rest of her family.
Lastly, the struggle in this book is all Mia’s, lest I try to make anyone think otherwise. This story is hers, and we accompany her on the journey -- however ridden with pain and uncertainty it is. The title itself is far more telling than one would assume.
This book was beautiful. Packed with so much living, dying, loving, crying....Not necessarily
in that order.Read for yourself to find out which path Mia takes. ;) Really, it’s a book that you won’t regret reading.
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