If I Stay... Beginning Opinion

   I just started If I Stay by Gayle Forman. Here is some background information about the book. So far the setting is Portland and it snowed about an inch which is enough for a snow day. Mia is the main character. Her whole family is musical, she plays the cello and is hopefully going to Julliard.  Mia, her brother Teddy, dad and mom are all off from school/work, so they decide to go visit their friends Henry and Willow. They are driving and the windows keep fogging up and then they crash horribly. "The impact of the four ton pickup truck going sixty miles an hour plowing straight into the passenger side had the force of an atom bomb."(page 15)

   After the crash Mia was perfectly fine, so she thought. Mia started looking for her family, first she saw her dad, little chunks of his brain were everywhere (eww). Then she saw her mom she had no blood, no anything she looked fine besides her face was white and lips were blue. She couldn't find Teddy anywhere, she thought she spotted him. She realized it's not Teddy, it's her, she doesn't know if she is dead or alive. Emergency workers came to the scene seconds later, she saw them wrap her mom and dad in plastic, but when they came to her they knew she wasn't quite dead yet. They were twenty minutes from the hospital and usually a person in her condition could only survive for ten minutes, but they were going to try their best to keep her alive. This is as far as I've read so far. I'm absolutely hooked so far and I'm curious to see if she will stay alive or die.

If I Stay book cover