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My Rating: 4 stars

*Don’t read if you haven’t read the previous book*

After Mia’s accident, she and Adam were on the rocks. She was accepted into Julliard and had a promising career playing the cello, and Adam’s band finally kicks it off with a hit album. Mia is off to New York and Adam lives in LA. Suddenly, Mia stops answering Adam’s phone calls, texts, and emails. Three years later, Adam is still brewing over why Mia randomly called it off when everything still seemed to be okay. His band, Shooting Star, was doing fantastically: they had another hit album – which Adam basically wrote himself and was basically all about Mia – and they were set to tour around the world. By chance, when Adam is New York by himself the couple gets back together again for one last night. As they explore Mia’s new home, New York, they reconnect and relive the past and open up to each other – and the future.
I’m so glad there was a sequel to If I Stay. I felt like we definitely needed to see how the accident and everything with Mia affected someone she loved and someone who loved her. Adam was the perfect main character for this book. He was only Mia’s boyfriend, but he loved her family too. It really shows how tragic events not only affect certain people, but the people around them too. The only thing I didn’t really like was the whole cliché ‘rock star who wants a normal life’ thing that was going on with Adam. He complains a lot about the paparazzi, groupies and interviews. It’s kind of over used and expected from a main character that is a ‘rock star’. But I also like that aspect, because it shows how two different people – Mia, a cellist, and Adam, a guy in a rock band – can be together and bond over their mutual, yet still somewhat different love for music. I think that is my favorite part of both of the two books, besides the fact that it is beautifully written. I love how music is a main component and it influences the all the characters differently.