If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Rating: 3.5 / 5 stars
Describe it in three words: Quick – Sad – Unique
First impression: Trying to read this before the movie comes out
Last impression: Wow that was misleading. All of the author notes, discussion questions, etc. took up another 30 pages at the back of the book so I kept thinking I still had a lot more to go 😦
Format: Paperback, borrowed from my coworker
On a day that started like any other,
Mia had everything: a loving family, a gorgeous, admiring boyfriend, and a bright future full of music and full of choices. 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 only decision she has left. It is the most important decision she’ll ever make.
Simultaneously tragic and hopeful, this is a romantic, riveting, and ultimately uplifting story about memory, music, living, dying, loving.
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