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Where She Went by Gayle Forman
2.75

"But I think we both know I'm lying. And the truth is, there isn't any avoiding Mia's ghost. Bryn and I wouldn't even be together if it weren't for her. In that twisted, incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy."


I wrote in my review of If I Stay, the prelude to Where She Went, that I wasn't sure if the sequel would be worth checking out or not. After reading Where She Went, I'm confident in the fact that Foreman could have left it as a standalone novel. Adam's perspective is just angsty, overdramatic. To compare a breakup to the intensity of losing your entire family is honestly uncouth, in my opinion. It wasn't terrible, it had moments of humor and tried to go down the route of how stardom taints some celebrities. But it could've been better executed or ...not existed at all.