If I Stay - Gayle Forman 
 Rating: 1/2 (Reviewed in January 2017) 
 Before the car accident, Mia (a talented, seventeen years old cellist) was expecting an acceptance letter from Juilliard that would forcefully change the future she had planned with her boyfriend Adam. 
 After the accident that killed both her parents and little brother, finding herself looking over her own severely injured and comatose body, but still able to walk the corridors of the hospital where the rest of her family and her friends gather, she has to choose between staying or moving on. 
 "I hear the nurse's word again. I am running the show. Everyone is waiting on me. 
 I decide. I know this now. 
 And it terrifies me more than anything else that has happened today." 
 What I liked: 
 - Mia's love for music 
 - Mia's relationship with the members of her family (with her Gramps in particular) 
 - The smooth transitions between the present and Mia's recollections (following her line of thoughts) 
 What I didn't like: 
 - The intimate scene between Mia, Adam and the bow... and Adam in general 
 - The end (too abrupt, I would have liked an epilogue about Mia's following year) 
 About the sequel: 
 I didn't like Where She Went at all (Rating: 1 star), I didn't care for the present of the characters or their behaviour, I only wanted answers about the time after Mia left the hospital (if she remembered her out-of-body experience, if she did go to Juilliard, etc.). I don't think a second book was necessary, an epilogue would have work better for me. 
 About the movie: 
 The movie is, in my opinion, slightly better than the book mainly because of the music (I do love the cello). I also liked that both children are taken to the same hospital and that Mia doesn't know what happened to her parents right away. Otherwise, it is pretty similar to the book.