"If I Stay"

What would you do if you had to choose between living and dealing with the loss of loved ones, or dying and not really knowing where you are going? I don't know if that's a question that anyone would really be able to answer until they were in a situation where they actually had to choose. I'd like to think that I would choose to live, but depending on whose death I had to deal with, I might choose to die with them. The book "If I Stay", by Gayle Forman, depicts a situation where one of these two choices has to be picked. Mia and her family get in a car accident, putting her in a coma, and she has to choose to go or stay. She reminisces old memories to help her decide, all while watching people come to visit her body in the ICU. 

That about sums up the whole book. This book was really 'talked up' to me before I read it, so I was expecting something different. I didn't exactly enjoy this book, and I don't understand why everyone else seems to like it so much. There I was reading about all these memories of her life, waiting for something to happen in the here and now, and then before I knew it I was at the end of the book. Lucky for me the book really isn't very long, otherwise I might have been mad I wasted more time on it. I guess this is one of those books that you will have to read for yourself. There is a sequel to it, "Where She Went", which might make the story more exciting. I will get back to you once I have read that one and let you know if it makes up for the first book. Anyhow, I wouldn't recommend reading this book unless you have time to spare and are genuinely curious about why it's so popular.