Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?
Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.
I just feel so let down by this book. The contemporary novels I read have to be engaging and feel really real but this book just didn't do that for me. The premise didn't do much for me either...should a teenage girl in a coma stay in her body and live out the rest of her life, or totally give up and join her family in spirit.
I'm sorry but for me that isn't really a choice - I'd stay with my remaining family and live out my life like my parents would have wanted me to. The fact that just giving up is even an option is what mostly deterred me from this book. But it's being made into a movie so of course I had to read it.
My biggest problem with this book was the language it was written in. Mia would be weighing her options, then suddenly out of nowhere we'd be looking back on a memory that conveniently tied into exactly what she was thinking about. *repeat for 200 pages* Then she finally made a decision on page 201, but by then I really didn't care anymore.
Had I resisted the urge to read this book and just see the movie like most normal people I probably would have liked it SO much more. In my opinion this book was written to be a movie. Just re-format the text and you have a well-written screenplay. Because of this I will probably go see the movie and hope for decent acting or else I'll have even more to complain about.
2 stars
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