If I Stay wasn't as amazing as I was hoping at all. This is the story of Mia a 17 year old girl that has had a traumatic accident. 
 While Mia struggles with her life we see flash backs of her relationship with Adam and her Parents, we see her struggle with leaving for college and how she learnt to play the cello. 
 The next part contains spoilers for the first few chapters if you don't want to be spoiled for them than do not read on please 
 Okay so Mia dies within the first few pages and we see her see her parents splattered on the ashphalt of the road and I wasn't expecting this so soon but I went into the story blind so there's that. I didn't realise this book would be told by Mia being in a weird ghost form. 
 I loved reading about Mia and her family I thought her Mum and Dad were such great characters as well as her Nan and Pop, they are the main reason I'm giving this 3 stars and not 2. 
 I didn't like Adam and Mia's relationship, Mia was constantly doubting herself and him which annoyed me because why can't there be a solid trust, I get that she's self conscious but I would have been annoyed if I was Adam and my GF constantly doubted my commitment without any reason to. 
 Another thing I didn't like was the sex scene, no I'm not a prude give me all the detailed smut there is but give me a weird ass sex scene where they describe each other as instruments and he cradles her like a guitar and plucks at her like a Spanish guitar? Also she rubs her bow across him and all I could think of is major friction rash and that's not sensual XD 
 Another thing I hated was Mia's bestie uses the word Retarded casually and that word will never sit well with me it wasn't pulled up and it didn't need to be written in unless you were just wanting me to dislike her automatically, she's not 13 she's 17-18 and should know better then to throw around harmful words for no reason. 
 Mia's voice wasn't my fave, I did like her reflections on her family and friends and what they would want her to do but asides from family relationships I just wasn't into it. 
 A lot of people love this book so I was expecting a lot more from it.