Monday, July 18, 2011

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Book #5: If I Stay by Gayle Forman. This is another book that I found on Amazon.com for my Kindle. It got quite a good rating, and was fairly cheap, so I bought it. =) It was a very fast read, but not necessarily an easy read. It's about a 17 year old girl named Mia who was in a car accident with her family and is the only survivor. But it turns out she's really having an out of body experience, and her body is being kept alive by machines. The bulk of the story is about her struggle with the tragedy and grieving and her having to make the ultimate decision of whether or not to stay, or to go. Again, it was a quick read (it took me maybe 3 hours?) but pretty heavy. Seeing as I like happy endings (and it's hard to have a happy ending when everyone in her family dies in the first two chapters), this wasn't quite up my alley. But it was a good read, none the less. 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.

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