Where She Went
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4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
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Publisher Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this powerful sequel to New York Times bestselling novel If I Stay, a young couple explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.
It’s been three years since Adam’s love saved Mia after the accident that annihilated life as she knew it . . . and three years since Mia walked out of Adam’s life forever.
Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard’s rising star and Adam is L.A. tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia’s home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future—and each other.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"I know it's really cheesy crass even to compare my being dumped to the accident that killed Mia's family, but I can't help it. Because for me, at any rate, the aftermath felt exactly the same." Forman follows up her bestselling If I Stay with a story that is equally if not more powerful, set three years after the previous book and told from the perspective of Mia's former boyfriend, Adam. Mia and Adam haven't seen each other since she left for Juilliard, deserting him just months after emerging from her coma. Adam's anguish found an outlet in songwriting, and the resulting album, Collateral Damage, has become a sensation, turning Adam and his band into bona fide rock stars, though he's barely keeping it together. Mia's career as a cellist is taking off as well, and a chance meeting in New York City gives Mia and Adam the opportunity to exorcise the ghosts of their past. Having spent If I Stay in Mia's head, readers are, like Adam, thrust into a state of unknowing regarding Mia's thoughts and motivations. It's an extremely effective device, and one that makes this reunion all the more heartrending. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
Perfect Sequel
It's hard to understand where they are, or rather why they are where they are now. But, the author does an amazing job of explaining how Mia & Adam came to be so different from their original characters. Life has changed them, that's clear, but ultimately you find that they are still the same characters we came to love in
If I Stay. The book delves into the depth of the tragedy's aftermath very gracefully. If you haven't read, If I Stay, before reading this book you really HAVE to, for two reasons. One, If I Stay although a short read, is one of the best and most original books you'll read in your lifetime and Two, you won't understand the beauty & grace of the two main characters without it.
Gayle Forman, your a literary genius!
This ❣️
I will read this series over and over again. It never gets old, it just gets better 🩷
Wow
This book is absolutely everything. It’s every emotion, suspense and pure thrill. I cannot get enough, and I’m terribly sad it’s over.