I’m a sucker for a good YA novel. I’m an even bigger sucker for a good YA novel where there is tragic death or dismemberment or some sort of horrible disease or a dead boyfriend. I cut my teenage teeth on Cynthia Voigt. Izzy, Willy-Nilly had me convinced that if I ever got in the car with someone who had had even one beer, I’d lose my leg, too,or even worse. And I wanted If I Stay to be good. I really, really did. But […]
if i stay
If I Stay is the story of Mia, a seventeen year old cellist, who is in a horrific car accident that kills her family and leaves her in critical condition. Mia has an out of body experience during the course of the novel, watching over her comatose body struggling to make a decision: should she die and join her family, or live. Spoiler Alert There is a sequel. If I Stay was pretty breezy for a novel about life and death. […]
One Long and Annoying Year
You know how after you read a really great book, you just can