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Review: If I Stay

By Gayle Forman

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“Maybe she’s just biding her time. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the time she needs, but to come on back. You’re waiting for her.” – page 91

Title: If I Stay
Author: Gayle Forman
Book: 1 of If I Stay
Genre: Contemporary
Found: On my shelf
Rating: 2.5 Voodoos

Mia has some tough choices before her. She’s good enough with her cello to audition for Juilliard, but accepting any place she may receive will mean leaving behind her family and friends as well as the boy she may just love, who has his own choices to make. Then one morning, out with her family, everything is wiped clear and only one choice, slightly altered, is left to her; stay, or go. Can she really choose between the two? And is it really her choice to make?

I had higher hopes for this book. In fact, I was thinking it a 3.5 as I got close to the end, but then I got there…and THEN I discovered book two was three years later, and…. What?!  No. No thank you.
(I need to state: I think my rather low rating reflects where this story goes after this book, but I can’t not adjust for that as this is a serious cliffy…)
Such a hard book to review! It’s one of those books that you really can’t safely review in detail for anyone who hasn’t read it, it’s under 300 pages long too!

I did enjoy the flashbacks, they made the whole thing seem slightly disjointed, like a scattered thought process which I thought was a little appropriate!

I spent the whole book waiting for the part where he writes her a song, from the trailer of the film. Yeah, that doesn’t happen in this book.
I do wonder if they end the film like the book, or if they round off the ending.

I don’t think I want to see the film now, which is kind of a shame as it looked quite good.

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