Originally posted at The Wandering Fangirl.

There are many words I can describe If I Stay as, but ouch pretty much covers it.

Following seventeen-year-old Mia as she watches life unfold after a horrible car crash that kills her family and leaves her in a coma, If I Stay is a novel that makes you question life and relationships. What connects us to those we love? What would we give to be with them? What would it take to leave them? Mia goes through all this and more, as she watches her loved ones gather in support for her, and the novel is broken up by Mia remembering her connections to them, the ways she loved them and they loved her. It’s wonderful and heartbreaking, and by the time Mia made her choice to stay or leave, I was in constant tears and with her all the way.