If I Stay (If I Stay, #1) in And So It Begins Reading Challenge

Feb 02, 2013 Holly Letson rated it it was amazing

Shelves: library-books, series-challenge-2013, and-so-it-begins-2013

I absolutely loved this book. And, I do admit that I cried near the end when Adam was begging Mia to "stay", right before she "returned". That was really touching.
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This book really makes you think. We never know when everything we have could become unimportant. And, the most important things, the ones that we take for granted? Even family? We never know when we could lose it all.
This book does an excellent job of catching us up on Mia's life. You feel like someone outside lookin ...more

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Apr 14, 2010 Nicole rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A beautiful book but not the tear-jerker I thought it would be. Most of the reviews I read mentioned that I should have a tissue box nearby from this novel but I never really felt it. It was very sad and heartwarming, but I just never got the chance to get connected to the characters. Even Mia was hard to relate to, though some things seemed reminiscent of my own life it just wasn't enough. I could have been longer and had more of the fluff in it that would have made me cry. For these kind of bo ...more

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Sep 11, 2012 Kirstyn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: beautiful-cover, favorites, favorite-authors, contemporary, already-own-it, swoon-worthy, makes-you-really-think, tissues-required

People aren't kidding when they say to have tissues when you read this book! If I Stay is a beautiful book about choices, love, life, and death-and what happens when they all combine together. Mia has to deal with a lot in this book-her boyfriend, Adam, is a successful musician in Oregon...and she might be accepted to Julliard..in NYC. To complicate matters, Mia's family is involved in an accident, and everything changes.

I loved the characters-every single one of them. They all contributed to t ...more

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Mar 03, 2012 Anasheh Satoorian rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book was definatlely something else! It took me less than 3 hours to read from start to finish and I was literally in tears throughout the whole book! So touching and moving! Excited that it will be turned into a movie!

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