I haven't read the first book of the series, If I Stay, wanted to clear that before going any further. I've seen the movie version of it.
This book is the sequel to If I Stay and the story kicks off three years after the accident, a narrative by Adam. Adam an Mia are now living separate lives, she is Julliard's rising star and Adam is a celebrity, thus tabloid fodder.
Music play a great role in this story, though doesn't aid it as such, yet reading songs in this is likeable.
This sequel is quite different from its prequel not only in terms of its genre but the characters, too, feel like are totally strange or rather alien would be the right word.
Adam sounds desperate, full of grief, irresponsible, jerk; basically pathetic. He is moping all time on how Mia left him without any word and that's the whole story. Mia, too, you could say has changed. Previously she was this girl you could like, she had her quirks. In this continuation she seems a commoner.
Sometimes Adam takes these peeks in his past, not just before the accident, even before Mia happens, those parts are fine and give an outlook on how Adam came to be. It's like the writer didn't have much to say, so he had to deliberately put that in there. If the story focused only on his past, it wouldn't be that bad an idea. When one finishes If I Stay, that person would certainly want to read the sequel, only to be disappointed.
I am sure the girls would love it largely, not all girls though, a few guys that's it. I finished it in two sittings, and not 'cause it's a page turner but I had to return it to the person whom I had borrowed it from.
'Use More Words and Make it Grand' would be my advice instead of making it melodramatic.
This book is the sequel to If I Stay and the story kicks off three years after the accident, a narrative by Adam. Adam an Mia are now living separate lives, she is Julliard's rising star and Adam is a celebrity, thus tabloid fodder.
Music play a great role in this story, though doesn't aid it as such, yet reading songs in this is likeable.
This sequel is quite different from its prequel not only in terms of its genre but the characters, too, feel like are totally strange or rather alien would be the right word.
Adam sounds desperate, full of grief, irresponsible, jerk; basically pathetic. He is moping all time on how Mia left him without any word and that's the whole story. Mia, too, you could say has changed. Previously she was this girl you could like, she had her quirks. In this continuation she seems a commoner.
Sometimes Adam takes these peeks in his past, not just before the accident, even before Mia happens, those parts are fine and give an outlook on how Adam came to be. It's like the writer didn't have much to say, so he had to deliberately put that in there. If the story focused only on his past, it wouldn't be that bad an idea. When one finishes If I Stay, that person would certainly want to read the sequel, only to be disappointed.
I am sure the girls would love it largely, not all girls though, a few guys that's it. I finished it in two sittings, and not 'cause it's a page turner but I had to return it to the person whom I had borrowed it from.
'Use More Words and Make it Grand' would be my advice instead of making it melodramatic.
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