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gwendolynwheat's review against another edition
3.0
I'm the first book was written in an interesting way. It wasn't my favorite. But this book really was great! Well written and a good story. Thanks for the ending!
breezy610's review against another edition
5.0
OMG! This book is the prefect sequel to If I Stay, but I think I love this book more because it's from a guy POV. Adam is pushing through life after Mia disappeared from his life three years ago. A chance encounter brings them together and finally he learns the truth on why she left him and never came back. I, for one, am glad that they got their HEA.
kenziep09's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed this book. I really liked seeing the book in Adam’s perspective, and seeing a little bit about the time after Mia’s accident. The reason I’d give this three stars is because I felt this was kind of bland and really only focused on how he I depressed and missing his old girlfriend. Otherwise I liked it.
jgurniak's review against another edition
3.0
While I did enjoy this, it really is not a necessary addition to the original story. It's nice to see mental illness taking the spotlight for once, but Adam honestly has some moments where he is just such a stereotypical toxic straight man that at times it was hard to feel bad for him. Yeah, Mia broke his heart and the pressures of sudden fame really get to him, but the moment that really made me cringe was when **minor spoiler** they were in the train station and he had a panic attack that lead to him vividly describing wanting to throw Mia against a wall and beat her.
I do feel bad for Adam in some ways, and Mia was definitely wrong for breaking up with him the way she did, but I don't like the victim complex Adam plays into, basically comparing his broken heart to Mia losing her entire family as if those things are equal. I just think that yeah Mia made a mistake with how she handled their relationship, but Adam's trying too hard to paint himself as the victim, not really considering the tragedy Mia went through.
Where She Went is mostly enjoyable, but If I Stay is better as a standalone.
I do feel bad for Adam in some ways, and Mia was definitely wrong for breaking up with him the way she did, but I don't like the victim complex Adam plays into, basically comparing his broken heart to Mia losing her entire family as if those things are equal. I just think that yeah Mia made a mistake with how she handled their relationship, but Adam's trying too hard to paint himself as the victim, not really considering the tragedy Mia went through.
Where She Went is mostly enjoyable, but If I Stay is better as a standalone.
zapkode's review against another edition
5.0
{My thoughts} – This book is written in a completely different style then the first which had caught me off guard. It’s not that the style change is a bad thing, I just think that consistency could have made it better.
The main focus of this book is Adam. The devastation he is left to endure after Mia leaves him for Juilliard. He goes through a lot of bad before he is finally able to pick himself up and realize that he can turn all that bad into something good, something powerful and something worth sharing with the world.
Somehow in the middle of him trying to sort his life out he ends up going to a concert where he sees Mia play. He watches her on one of the biggest nights of her life and even though he didn’t want her to know he was there she had found out. Once the concert is over she asks for him to be brought to her backstage they have a chat and he leaves. He is in a whirl of mixed emotions at this point and while he is walking away she is chasing after him and they resume their conversation.
This entire book is based on their conversation. They traipse all over New York City and they talk. They try to find common ground, they try to sort out everything, most of all they try to come to an understanding.
I laughed and I teared up while reading this book just as I did with the first. I have to admit even the the style was different it was still incredibly well written. I enjoyed reading it and I will more then likely try and read this series again sometime in the future. There is a lot one can learn from within it’s pages.
The main focus of this book is Adam. The devastation he is left to endure after Mia leaves him for Juilliard. He goes through a lot of bad before he is finally able to pick himself up and realize that he can turn all that bad into something good, something powerful and something worth sharing with the world.
Somehow in the middle of him trying to sort his life out he ends up going to a concert where he sees Mia play. He watches her on one of the biggest nights of her life and even though he didn’t want her to know he was there she had found out. Once the concert is over she asks for him to be brought to her backstage they have a chat and he leaves. He is in a whirl of mixed emotions at this point and while he is walking away she is chasing after him and they resume their conversation.
This entire book is based on their conversation. They traipse all over New York City and they talk. They try to find common ground, they try to sort out everything, most of all they try to come to an understanding.
I laughed and I teared up while reading this book just as I did with the first. I have to admit even the the style was different it was still incredibly well written. I enjoyed reading it and I will more then likely try and read this series again sometime in the future. There is a lot one can learn from within it’s pages.
beccaj2180's review against another edition
5.0
When I first began reading this book - 3 hours ago - I was nervous. I'm a pretty emotional person, and I had just finished If I Stay, which broke something inside of me (for personal reasons). I was afraid that reading the sequel was going to rip my heart out, especially because I had already read the summary for this book, and as a writer, I have a pretty good idea what other writers are going to do. I won't say I was surprised by the story line. The story itself isn't just what makes this book so amazing.
The thing that gets to me - and I can say this because I really read both of them in one day - is that the author actually managed to give both Mia and Adam different voices between the two books. That is incredibly hard to do. Don't pretend any of you that it is an easy thing. Anyway, wow. I read this book so fast that I didn't even update Goodreads until I was already finished with it. Definitely recommend.
The thing that gets to me - and I can say this because I really read both of them in one day - is that the author actually managed to give both Mia and Adam different voices between the two books. That is incredibly hard to do. Don't pretend any of you that it is an easy thing. Anyway, wow. I read this book so fast that I didn't even update Goodreads until I was already finished with it. Definitely recommend.
kirstym3692's review against another edition
4.0
Like part 1, I really liked this book. I just felt like the ending was a bit rushed, out of the blue they suddenly got back together? other than that it was great!
angievdbroeck's review against another edition
3.0
Een boek dat je vragen stelt, prachtig geschreven!