Where She Went (If I Stay #2)

Published April 27, 2012 by Penguin.

ISBN:
978-0-14-242089-8
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It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . 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 LA 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.

Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.

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4 stars

"Where She Went", der Folgeband zu "If I Stay", hat mir um Längen besser gefallen als sein Vorgänger. Deshalb kann ich gleich zu Anfang empfehlen, "Wenn ich bleibe" erst gar nicht zu lesen, sondern bloß den Film zu schauen und nur den zweiten Band zu lesen.

Der Schreibstil ist sehr gut gelungen und lässt sich sehr flüssig lesen. Wie schon Teil 1 wird auch hier wieder sehr stark mit Rückblicken gearbeitet, was mich diesmal aber nicht gestört hat, da man so ein extrem gutes Bild davon bekommt, wie Liebeskummer sich unter Umständen anfühlen kann. Adam ist nur noch ein Schatten seiner selbst und leidet auch nach 3 Jahren noch daran, dass Mia kein Teil seines Lebens mehr ist. Auch die Verwirklichung seiner anderen Träume kann nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass alles irgendwie den Bach runter gegangen ist.

Die Thematik und auch alles sonst bei "Where She Went" konnte mich voll und …

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5 stars

Full review on Reader's Dialogue: readersdialogue.blogspot.com/2013/07/if-i-stay-where-she-went.html

Both
books each tell about a single day, but they have lots of flashbacks and memories so the character's entire story up to that point is told as well. I loved this style, especially in Where She Went, because I got the feeling that everything that happens on this one day is directly affected by what happened before, that everything that happens in a person's life is linked to everything else.

The music laced around the story is also really great. Especially in Where She Went, when some chapters are prefaced by an excerpt from the lyrics Adam wrote about his heartbreak. Funny thing, though, at the end of If I Stay, Gayle Forman says she can't write lyrics and so appropriated published songs for her fictional characters and bands. But in Where She Went, Adam's lyrics are obviously original - so …

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