Book-A-Like: If I Stay & Before I Fall
Heart-rending stories about life and the choices we make feature in today’s QBD Book-a-like. If I Stay by Gayle Forman: Just listen,’ Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen.‘Stay,’ he says. Everybody has to make […]
QBD Reviews: Where She Went by Gayle Forman
I quite enjoyed this sequel to If I Stay. Sometimes a sequel can be a let-down but not this one. I liked how this story was told from Adam’s perspective, his thoughts and feelings of life after Mia “woke up”. Through Adam’s memories and encounters with people in the present day we find out about […]
QBD Great Reads: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Oh wow! Such an emotional story. I had similar feelings reading this story as when reading Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. I loved both stories, as both made me cry – in a good way – and I was emotionally invested in the characters. This young adult contemporary novel is about Mia, a young 17 […]
Book-A-Like: If I Stay & Thirteen Reasons Why
Exquisitely sad YA stories about life and death, loss and love feature in this week’s Book-A-Like. Clay Jensen is still reeling from the death of his friend and first love, Hannah Baker, two weeks previous. When he arrives home one afternoon to a strange package on his doorstep, what he imagines is inside it is […]
