** spoiler alert ** 
 According to Goodreads, 2 out of fives stars means "It was OK" and if that's what it means, then this book gets 2 stars. 
 *sigh* Where do I begin... I LOVED "If I Stay" I cried from beginning to end and took in Mia's story on such a personal level that I kept imagining what I would do if I were in Mia's place. It touched me. Adam's story in "Where She Went" just didn't. 
 Before I took this book on I read a number of five star reviews on here taking about how they cried more in this one then the original and how it was such a heart-wrenching story of loss... And as I was reading it (and pushing myself through it, at that), I kept waiting for the sad stuff that never came. 
 Am I just getting so jaded in my old age of 28 that I can't appreciate a good YA love story when it comes at me? I really don't know. But this story made me want to yell and scream and pull my hair out! So she dumped you, GET OVER IT! People get dumped EVERY DAY. But even then, I continued through his depression and his moping in hopes of a closure that he so obviously needed. But what I ended up reading was a reconciliation. And as I was reading it and all of his blabber about his love for her and her for him I rolled my eyes so many times that I started getting annoyed with myself for being so annoyed with the story. 
 Now don't get me wrong, this book was very well written because Gayle Forman is an amazing writer. I'm not in anyway trying to take that fact away. I just didn't FEEL for the story at all. Maybe it was because I was constantly comparing it to the first book, or maybe I just wasn't in the right place to be reading a love story at the time that I read it...