I decided to read If I Stay and Where She Went because I didn’t really have anything else burning a hole in my TBR pile and since Where She Went is a BlogHer Book Club book I figured what the hell.
And I am an idiot.
I took a vacation and did not pay one iota of attention to what Where She Went was about, I just knew that If I Stay was the book that came before it – so I started there.
Totally not the book I really wanted to read on the day of Skeeter’s memorial service. But, since I’m a glutton for punishment, I said what the hell again and kept reading. And read the book straight through and yes I shed a tear or two. While I did not hate the end, I understood immediately why Gayle Forman had to write a sequel, even if she hadn’t been planning on writing a sequel
And I really liked Where She Went – though I did not expect to. I really wasn’t sure as I was reading, because Adam was so very much not the same person he had been in the first book. I understood why he wasn’t but it was tough going there for a bit. And I do believe he’d have been OK – even without the happy ending. I liked that. I liked that the resolution and the closure came before everything fell prettily into place.
Nicely done. Both books, nicely done.
Oh. That was just not good timing at all.