Gayle Forman's If I Stay
If you thought about a YA novel that centered on a talented teenage cellist (w/ a rock star boyfriend, of course) who gets into an accident and spends 24 hours watching events unfold and deciding whether to live or die, this would be exactly the book you expected. I mean, it's not bad--I got a little teary at times, and the central family is well-written--but nothing unexpected or even especially interesting happens, ever. I imagine this will be a best-seller anyway--it's getting lots of buzz since it was optioned for a movie before it was even published, to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke. I don't know what grade to give this--it was a perfectly serviceable story but didn't rock my world in any way. B/B+?
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