If I Stay by Gayle Forman caught my eye on a recent blog post. I have heard amazing things about the books Gayle has written and I am so glad I picked up If I Stay from the audiobook. I listened to the audiobook, which was read by Kirsten Potter and was 5 hours, 4 minutes long.

Likes:

This book hits you like a freight train. The family is so cute, starts off sitting happily eating breakfast on a snow day. The hop in the car, happily chatting with each other and then BOOM life changes. Definitely reminds you that every minute of life needs to be lived to the fullest.

I loved the struggle between life and death, being or unbeing. Mia has to decide what she is going to do and how she wants to react to her new situation.

The book goes between past and present, it was so neat to read what it could possibly be like to have an outer-body experience.

I loved Mia, I loved that she felt like she never fit in and I loved her passion for music. I have this bright red hair that no one, even in my extended family has, so it was always a joke that I was the “milkman’s” daughter. Mia felt the same way because she had dark features when her family were all blond.

Mia boyfriend was so cute and now added to my book crush list. He seriously had to jump through hoops to get in to see her. His anquish was so thick, it was so hard not to well up with feels!

Gripes:

To tell you the truth, I really can’t think of any. I think this would have been a really good stand-alone, so I am just really hoping the 2nd book won’t miss up the magic.

Quotes:

“I realize now that dying is easy. It is living that’s hard.”

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