Book Review #1 By Katy Tufo

If I Stay

By: Gale Forman

Mia and her family are in the car going to their Grandparents house because they have a snow day. The roads are really bad from the snow which causes the car to crash. Her parents are thrown from the car and die immediately, but Mia and her brother Teddy are sent to the hospital. Mia is in a coma and is telling the story from her point of view outside her body. She tells about being confused on whether to wake up, and be with her boyfriend, her best friend, and her Grandparents, or to die and go to heaven with her parents.

What I liked about the book is that Mia would tell flashbacks about her life before the time. I also liked how the end of the book kind of left you hanging so you want to read the second book. What I didn’t like about the book was that it was so sad. After the car crash, bad things just kept happening to her. My favorite part of the book is when she remembers her first date with Adam. I would connect this to the episode of Hannah Montana, when she got in a snowboarding accident and was in a coma. She was also outside of her body seeing everything that happens around her.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes love stories, cliff hangers, or trauma stories. I would say this book would be for mostly teenagers and up. This tells the story of a teenage girl so most people my age would like to read this book because of that. I would rate this book 4 out of 5 stars, because it was really well written and I loved the book. I think people should read this book because it’s one of those books you can’t put down.