It's tragic, it's beautiful and it's brilliant.įor the first few pages, If I Stay comes across like a light-hearted story about a teenager, her love life and her kooky family, but from the moment Forman hits you with the devastatingly detached description of the aftermath of the crash, you know you've picked up something special. It's not very often a book can move me to tears – usually, I need to be listening to soppy music to get that lump in the throat, but If I Stay needed no musical assistance. But with everything she's lost, does she have enough left to live for?
It's the only choice that really matters in the end. Mia has a choice to make, but it's no longer music or Adam. Then she watches as her family come, her Gran and Gramps, her aunts and uncles, then her friend Kim and finally Adam.
She can't feel or do anything, just watch as her body is transported to the hospital, put on a ventilator and operated on.
Mia's parents are killed instantly and Mia finds herself outside of her own body. Then one day Mia's family go for a drive, and their car is hit by a pickup truck. Would their relationship survive if she went to Juilliard? Between Mia's rehearsals and Adam's gigs they barely have any time to spend together as it is. At least, he's in Oregon sometimes – his band Shooting Star is starting to take off and he's always busy. But Julliard is in New York, and Adam is in Oregon. Half of Mia wants more than anything to go to Juilliard, a prestigious music school. Mia has two loves in her life – her first love music, and boyfriend Adam. Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love. Summary: Incredibly sad, but life affirming and heart warming, everyone who has ever had to make a difficult choice involving things they love should read this book.
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