Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Book Review #478 - Where She Went (If I Stay #2) by Gayle Forman

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If you had a second chance at first love... would you take it?

It's been three years since Adam's love saved Mia after the accident that annihilated life as she knew it... and three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.

Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Julliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future-and each other.
If you had a second chance at first love... would you take it?

It's been three years since Adam's love saved Mia after the accident that annihilated life as she knew it... and three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.

Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Julliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future-and each other.


My Rating: 4/5


This is the sequel to If I Stay which I read and reviewed in 2011.


This book is told from Adam's perspective which I surprisingly preferred to that of Mia's in If I Stay.


Like with Mia in If I Stay, Adam's life is in complete disarray. However, it felt like Adam was more in tune with his emotions and delved a lot deeper into them than Mia.


Whilst in If I Stay, it is about Mia's relationships with the different members of her family and Adam, this book focuses primarily on Mia and Adam's relationship which was something that I enjoyed. 



This book is set three years after the accident and in all that time Adam hasn't seen Mia at all, not by his choosing. When they finally meet they both realise that whilst Mia may carry the physical scars of the accident, both of them carry the emotional ones. 


The first book is primarily set in the hospital so it was refreshing to see the characters in a much more normal and less stressful environment.  

1 comment:

  1. Nice review! Definitely agree on seeing the new light of Adam and Mia. :)

    Cindy @ In This World of Books..

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