- Hardcover: 264 pages
- Publisher: Dutton Books (5 April 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0525422943
- ISBN-13: 978-0525422945
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.5 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
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"[A] gorgeous portrayal of rejection and rekindled love." - USA Today "Forman follows up her bestselling "If I Stay" with a story that is equally if not more powerful . . . " - Publishers Weekly, starred review
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The eagerly-awaited sequel to Gayle Forman's international best seller, If I Stay - now available in paperback
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
About three years ago, Mia and Adam went their separate ways - Mia off to Julliard and Adam off to live the life of a rock star.
Adam is about to start a European tour with Shooting Star. Since heading off on his own, he has attempted to push aside the emotions he still feels for Mia. Doing so has created a whole new set of problems. Adam is becoming cut off from his fellow band members, and the resulting pressure is becoming more than he can take. His days are filled with annoying interviews, meetings, and rehearsals that he only manages to get through with the help of prescription drugs and cigarettes. His equally famous girlfriend constantly berates him about living with a ghost from his past.
In New York City for a brief interview before leaving for the tour, Adam has an angry outburst due to questions from a nosy interviewer. Knowing he won't be popular, he takes off, avoiding his flight and, hopefully, the anger of his manager. His thoughts are filled with Mia, and when he stumbles across her name on the marquee for a Youth Concert series, he asks if any tickets remain. Fate intervenes and he finds himself sitting in the concert hall watching her perform.
After the concert he plans to slink back to his hotel and attempt to make up for his earlier bad behavior by contacting his manager. But on his way out of the concert hall, Adam is approached by an usher, asking him to follow him to Mia's dressing room.
What follows is a twenty-four-hour period of emotional ups and downs as both Adam and Mia confront the demons surrounding their complicated relationship. Adam relives the terrible months of watching Mia struggle to recover from the accident that killed her parents and her little brother. He knows he is the reason why Mia left. He had prayed for her recovery and promised he would let her go if that was what she wanted. For three lonely years, he has lived with the fact that that must have been her desire.
Can Adam and Mia forgive each other and themselves before each must leave to fulfill separate responsibilities on opposite sides of the world?
Author Gayle Forman takes readers back into the lives of Mia and Adam in her sequel to IF I STAY. With the focus more on Adam and his heartbreak both during and after Mia's family tragedy, Forman broadens the heartbreaking story in an emotional yet realistic direction. She explores the impact of death and separation as two people strive to overcome pain and connect with futures that satisfy them both.
Reviewed by: Sally Kruger, aka "Readingjunky"
Adam is about to start a European tour with Shooting Star. Since heading off on his own, he has attempted to push aside the emotions he still feels for Mia. Doing so has created a whole new set of problems. Adam is becoming cut off from his fellow band members, and the resulting pressure is becoming more than he can take. His days are filled with annoying interviews, meetings, and rehearsals that he only manages to get through with the help of prescription drugs and cigarettes. His equally famous girlfriend constantly berates him about living with a ghost from his past.
In New York City for a brief interview before leaving for the tour, Adam has an angry outburst due to questions from a nosy interviewer. Knowing he won't be popular, he takes off, avoiding his flight and, hopefully, the anger of his manager. His thoughts are filled with Mia, and when he stumbles across her name on the marquee for a Youth Concert series, he asks if any tickets remain. Fate intervenes and he finds himself sitting in the concert hall watching her perform.
After the concert he plans to slink back to his hotel and attempt to make up for his earlier bad behavior by contacting his manager. But on his way out of the concert hall, Adam is approached by an usher, asking him to follow him to Mia's dressing room.
What follows is a twenty-four-hour period of emotional ups and downs as both Adam and Mia confront the demons surrounding their complicated relationship. Adam relives the terrible months of watching Mia struggle to recover from the accident that killed her parents and her little brother. He knows he is the reason why Mia left. He had prayed for her recovery and promised he would let her go if that was what she wanted. For three lonely years, he has lived with the fact that that must have been her desire.
Can Adam and Mia forgive each other and themselves before each must leave to fulfill separate responsibilities on opposite sides of the world?
Author Gayle Forman takes readers back into the lives of Mia and Adam in her sequel to IF I STAY. With the focus more on Adam and his heartbreak both during and after Mia's family tragedy, Forman broadens the heartbreaking story in an emotional yet realistic direction. She explores the impact of death and separation as two people strive to overcome pain and connect with futures that satisfy them both.
Reviewed by: Sally Kruger, aka "Readingjunky"
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If I Stay was one of my favourite reads of 2009 - it was one of those books that became so much more than just the sum of it parts. It completely blew me away. When I heard there was going to be a sequel I have to admit I was excited but also worried - I just couldn't see how it could possibly compare. But how wrong was I to be even slightly concerned? I loved this one as much as If I Stay, maybe even more!
It's been 3 years since the events of If I Stay and Adam is now at the 'height' of his musical career. Famous, easily recognised he finds his success not what he thought it would be. And despite it being years since she left, Adam hasn't stopped loving Mia. When he finds himself stuck in New York for the night it leads to a meeting with Mia ...
I really like Adam in If I Stay but I absolutely adored him in this. There is just something so raw and brutally honest about his narration. He obviously misses Mia but it's more than that - he's still grieving for her family. I also found it interesting that he didn't like the fame that came with his success as a musician - that he no longer enjoyed what it was he loved about playing in the first place.
Mia was just as I remembered her and I enjoyed seeing her through Adam's eyes. Losing your whole family is impossible to conceive - and how you would continue your life after is equally unfathomable. I would imagine you would either embrace whoever is left in your life or lash out at them. I'm guessing cutting Adam out of her life must have been her way of lashing out. But everything she says - has done - makes complete sense.
The interaction between the two felt as if they were just picking up where they left off - and that fate brought them back together at just the right time. I just couldn't stop reading - I honestly felt as if I could have read forever and I had to know if these two characters would get a 'happy' ending.
A stunning sequel, beautifully written, with characters that will capture your heart. It is a story of loss and love - choosing how you want to live your life and having the courage to actually live it in the way you want.
A perfect companion to If I Stay - I absolutely loved it!
It's been 3 years since the events of If I Stay and Adam is now at the 'height' of his musical career. Famous, easily recognised he finds his success not what he thought it would be. And despite it being years since she left, Adam hasn't stopped loving Mia. When he finds himself stuck in New York for the night it leads to a meeting with Mia ...
I really like Adam in If I Stay but I absolutely adored him in this. There is just something so raw and brutally honest about his narration. He obviously misses Mia but it's more than that - he's still grieving for her family. I also found it interesting that he didn't like the fame that came with his success as a musician - that he no longer enjoyed what it was he loved about playing in the first place.
Mia was just as I remembered her and I enjoyed seeing her through Adam's eyes. Losing your whole family is impossible to conceive - and how you would continue your life after is equally unfathomable. I would imagine you would either embrace whoever is left in your life or lash out at them. I'm guessing cutting Adam out of her life must have been her way of lashing out. But everything she says - has done - makes complete sense.
The interaction between the two felt as if they were just picking up where they left off - and that fate brought them back together at just the right time. I just couldn't stop reading - I honestly felt as if I could have read forever and I had to know if these two characters would get a 'happy' ending.
A stunning sequel, beautifully written, with characters that will capture your heart. It is a story of loss and love - choosing how you want to live your life and having the courage to actually live it in the way you want.
A perfect companion to If I Stay - I absolutely loved it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Well-written, but mundane to the point I was bored waiting for the big reveal...what an anticlimax
31 Jan 2012
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Maybe I didn't appreciate this tale as I didn't read If I Stay. I was hoping for a big reveal, for lovers reunited, for lots of 'sorry' and maybe for a 'love means never having to say you're sorry' kind of ending. But that's not what I got.
Despite not reading the predecessor to this tale, I did pick up the tale quickly and I did empathise with Mia. But, for all of that, to get everything resolved in less than 24hrs, following a 'what the hell' kind of decision on Adam's part to go and see her concert, felt as if I'd read and built this novel up to be more than it could have been, and when the end came, it was too pat, too convenient, too 'yeah, right'.
I'm not saying that I didn't like it that they did get together, but it wasn't realistic, best friends, past history and all. Overall, bar the two typos I found, this was an ok-if-you-have-nothing-else-to-read tale.
Despite not reading the predecessor to this tale, I did pick up the tale quickly and I did empathise with Mia. But, for all of that, to get everything resolved in less than 24hrs, following a 'what the hell' kind of decision on Adam's part to go and see her concert, felt as if I'd read and built this novel up to be more than it could have been, and when the end came, it was too pat, too convenient, too 'yeah, right'.
I'm not saying that I didn't like it that they did get together, but it wasn't realistic, best friends, past history and all. Overall, bar the two typos I found, this was an ok-if-you-have-nothing-else-to-read tale.
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