Synopsis (If I Stay): Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones. Stay true to her first love--music--even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?
Then, one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone except one. And it's the only one that matters.
In If I Stay, we meet Mia, a very talented cellist, who is in love with a boy who wants to be a rock star. They find their lives being pulled in two different directions. Mia hopes to go to Juilliard and Adam, her boyfriend, hopes to take his band to the highest points in the industry. Until everything changes for both of them. Mia's family is in a car accident and then she is left in a coma. While her body lies limp in a hospital bed, she finds herself taking a journey to figure out if she should leave everything on earth behind to be with her family, who are already gone, or stay and be with those who are there praying and hoping she will return. This story isn't just about love and loss, its about impossible choices and heartbreak. No matter what Mia's choice, she feels that she loses a piece of herself. This story is painful just to read but beautifully written and really hits its mark in making you sit at the edge of your seat to see which avenue she will choose.
...and three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.
now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is L.A. tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chances bring the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's new home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future--and each other.
I devoured this book in a couple of hours. Told from Adam's point of view, the reader experiences Adam's misery that he has been dealing with since the break up, which he can also thank for his last album, and his own memories that haunt him. Although Adam seems to have it all--the music, the fame, the celebrity girlfriend--he has been heartbroken and depressed since the day Mia left him behind and music isn't enough anymore. Now, in New York, he is about to leave for another tour that he really doesn't want to go on. While walking through the city, he notices Mia is performing and decides to sit in.
For one last night the two spend time together in New York, the delve into each other's lives trying to catch up but Adam is so distracted by his own questions about their break up that he pretends to be calmer around her than he feels. In a achingly bittersweet novel, the two are reunited and have to decide if this is a sign that means anything. While the narrative is in Adam's perspective, its very close in style to the narrative in Mia's perspective. Otherwise, this story will leaving you teary-eyed. An amazing sequel to If I Stay, better than I could have ever expected.
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