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If I Stay

by Gayle Forman

Series: If I Stay (1)

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While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
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Such an amazing book, I watched the movie to this book before I read it. I love knowing that this book is part of a series! I really do recommend. ( )
  florrrrr12 | Aug 31, 2023 |
Not my favorite. I understand she is in a coma, so she can not speak, but I wanted more dialogue. Gayle Forman tried to make up for this with flashbacks, most of which were boring and seemed pointless. I really wanted this to be better. ( )
  CaitlinDaugherty | Aug 28, 2023 |
Not my favorite. I understand she is in a coma, so she can not speak, but I wanted more dialogue. Gayle Forman tried to make up for this with flashbacks, most of which were boring and seemed pointless. I really wanted this to be better. ( )
  CaitlinDaugherty | Aug 28, 2023 |
I am not the target audience at all, but I think I can understand why teens would like this. It was a quick read and raises some good questions.

Forman has her young narrator use words even I (a dictionary geek) would never employ. That's not especially realistic, but perhaps it will inspire a new trend towards expansive vocabularies. ( )
  Kim.Sasso | Aug 27, 2023 |
Profoundly moving. This book brought into perspective how fragile life is and how easily the things that we take for granted can disappear. Really makes you look at your life differently. This was an amazing read. Highly recommend. ( )
  AylaJayne | Apr 21, 2023 |
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If you want a story that really grabs at your heart this is perfect. Mia is a teenager who plays cello which comes almost natural to her. She even auditioned for Julliard . I really should have read this one at a better time than on a road trip. Considering the first chapter puts you right into a horrific car crash after a great morning with her family trying to decide what to do on their snow day. When I grabed this book I kind of just scimmed through it not really knowing what I was really in store for. During the car crash scene I had to stop several times because of the gore and pain I felt reading this. Of course I don't think it help stoping either for a while because every time my husband had to change lanes i was cringing inside, I'm just glad it wasn't snowing. I had to get back into the story because I just had to know what was going to happen to Mia.
The parnormal effect in this book was perfect, She was an apparition standing in the whole time looking over her life from the outside looking in. She was in a coma and heard everything but was unable to do anything. She had to decide whether to go with her family she lost or stay with the ones left be hide. Every character in this story I loved from the quite grandfather to the punk rocker boyfriend. I loved the flash backs of her family they made the book even more enjoyable. This story had me on the verge of tears several times. I was begging Mia to just stay the whole time. If this happen to me I think I would have a really hard time choosing. I will be reading this one over and over again!
 
Via Mia's thoughts and flashbacks, Forman (Sisters in Sanity) expertly explores the teenager's life, her passion for classical music and her strong relationships with her family, friends and boyfriend, Adam. Mia's singular perspective (which will recall Alice Sebold's adult novel, The Lovely Bones) also allows for powerful portraits of her friends and family as they cope: Please don't die. If you die, there's going to be one of those cheesy Princess Diana memorials at school, prays Mia's friend Kim. I know you'd hate that kind of thing. Intensely moving, the novel will force readers to take stock of their lives and the people and things that make them worth living.
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While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

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On a day that started like any other… Mia had everything: a loving family, a gorgeous, adoring boyfriend, and a bright future full of music and full of choices. Then, 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 one decision she has left—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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