If I Stay...

If I Stay….

Gayle Forman

Published: April 2009

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

My copy is a… Library book, but I hope to purchase the book soon.

Goodreads

Summary: Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.
I open my eyes wide now.I sit up as much as I can.And I listen.
Stay, he says.
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.
If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make. (Via Goodreads)

Okay so haven’t wrote a review in forever but I finally read If I Stay after hearing amazing things about it and holy cow this book is a rival to The Fault In Our Stars in overall emotions and love that grows for the characters.

The book isn’t that long, just over 200 pages with a bigger than average font, but in those 200 pages you fall in love with Mia. You learn her flaws, her likes, her dislikes, her passions, the entire book your praying for her as you read.

One of my favorite parts about Mia was that she had one best friend not one best friends AND all these other super close friends she had Kim who was her best friend and they knew everything about each other and went together like two peas in a pod.  Other than Kim, Mia also has Adam her boyfriend who is a punk rock musician who at first glance (first chapter) seems like he is a complete opposite of Mia and in some ways that’s true but they are very similar. The biggest similarity between them is their shared passion for music.

Mia started playing the cello at a very young age and is now in her senior year she is applying to Julliard`. Her lo fore classical music is opposite of the rest of her family. Her mom and dad were into punk rock and her dad only quit his band when he had she was born.

I don’t know how to really say a ton about this book cause I really don’t want to spoil it because part of what was so great about it was that I had never seen a spoiler anywhere and had never even read the description.

My one word on the subject is this:

This book isn’t sad it’s raw and beautiful.

Rating

5 stars!

Do what ever you have to get this book it is amazing!!

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If that review didn’t convince you I think you’ll especially like this book if you liked…

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Or

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

Bout Of Books Day 5/6 + Breakable Review

ARRRGGRGRGR i feel so bad!! i stopped updating!!!!

So since i last updated i have finished breakable (and the review is below) and i finished We Were Liars By E. Lockhart.

That puts my total pages read....... 890!! Im going to post the review for We Were  Liaes separate but the review is on its way!

So now on to the review of Breakable!

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Breakable
Aimee L. Salter

Goodreads
Published: October 2013
Publisher: Aimee L. Salter
My copy is a.... Paperback, I got as a gift.

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Stacy looks in the mirror she can see and talk to her future self. Stacy's depended on "Older Me" to help her hold onto hope as the effects of relentless bullying, and unrequited love for her best friend Mark threaten to strip away every last piece of her self-belief. 

Then Stacy finds out Older Me is a liar. 
If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?  (via Goodreads)

I have no idea how i found this book but it got on to my to read list and when i was asked what i wanted for my birthday I went through the list and picked this one. The way the story is told is so amazing, the way that it goes back to the her in the councilors office and the writing is just amazing. 

I won't say what it is but there is a huge twist at the ending that is just perfect.

UGGGG books with twist endings are very hard to review.

The key part that Stacy's art played in the book was very well done. It showed how she perceived everyone other than just saint it outright.

Another thing i liked about the book was that it never have a description of herself. Stacy never described herself for the reader. It contributed to showing what Stacy's self esteem was.

The writing was so beautiful. It was the type of story that really shows the difference between showing and tell. I wish i could put more quotes but that would spoil the book.

Verdict:

Five Stars
This book was so amazing.
I would recommend it to anyone who like books by Laurie Halse Anderson's books

Quotes (spoiler free):

"...I had the womb of silence all to myself and I got lost. I spent so many hours mixing colors, scraping crayon and smudging pencil, my eyes fixed in the short distance. When I'd look up from the paper, my vision blurred." page 153

"What was wrong with me? Why couldn't I be the kick-ass heroine, like in books? Or the strong, noble star of a movie?
Because it hurts." page 264