Independent Reading Assignment

For my independent reading assignment I decided to read If I Stay. The movie came out a few months ago, so I decided to read the book. I've heard some mixed reactions so I was excited to get a chance to read it. Now I am about 1/3 of the way in and I can't put it down. The book is so unique with the main character being Mia, a girl stuck in the stage between life and death. After a deadly car accident her whole family is dead and she is the only one with a chance of life. The book takes place with her in a coma, but Mia running around almost as a ghost. It goes back and forth between her thinking of her past and her present time. As I was reading I came across a quote that I had to share, "If I stay. If I live. It's up to me... And this terrifies me more than everything,"(88). I find this quote so interesting because she says that it's so scary having to decide life or death. After everything she had been through, seeing her whole family dead on the ground, this is what scares her most. To me it would almost be a no-brainer that she should stay, but reading all the thoughts makes me really question what she will decide.