Friday, June 25, 2010

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Read this for the YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) challenge over at Tattooed Books.  It's pretty short (196 pages).  Seventeen-year-old Mia is in a car accident -- her mother, father, and younger brother are all killed and she is in a coma, but can watch what is happening. She has to decide if she wants to stay with all the goodness that is still in her life (grandparents, boyfriend & best friend, a love for music) or let herself die because of how hard she knows it will be to go on without her family.

I have a feeling that the story line requires too much (un)willing suspension of disbelief for some readers, but I was up for it and liked it.  Who else has read this one?

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