Reading Response #3- "Where She Went" By: Gayle Forman

Reading your response #3- “Where She Went” By: Gayle Forman

                I have continued to read “Where She Went” and I have still enjoyed it. I got kind of bored with it because the story was taking a forever to pick back up again. But I started reading it again, and I don’t remember why I stopped reading, because it was more interesting now that it was before. Maybe I just needed a break from reading.

             The chapter I have continued to read, was about Mia and Adam finally meeting each other again, because it has been such a long time. Mia and Adam go out on the town, where Mia gives Adam her own private tour of her favorite spots of New York City. Adam is shy towards Mia, which seems a little strange because you would think that he would be so happy to see her, not almost frightened. At the same time I understand why he would be a bit scared. Adam made this promise to Mia, that if she lives, that no matter what he would let her go if she would decide to stay.  And now that she is living a basically normal life and she wants to see Adam he’s speechless, and feels almost guilty to see her, and be talking to her, because of his promise. This promise that he made carries out throughout the part that I read because the guilt he feels, and how he doesn’t have the right to feel guilty because shes the one who got to have her life back.

 

 

           This book is really good, considering it’s a sequel. It stays with the story line, and it has “flash backs” to scenes in the first book, “If I Stay”.  Which I like, because I like remembering the moments of the first book, and seeing how they relate to the moments that are happening in the first book. The first book does have a movie and I still have not seen it, but I am hoping that they will possibly make a sequel to the movie as well.

Quotes:

·         “It would’ve been easier to die. It’s not that I want to be dead now. I don’t. I have a lot in my life that I get satisfaction from that I love. But some days, especially in the beginning, it was so hard. And I couldn’t help but think that it would’ve been so much simpler to go with the rest of them. But you—you asked me to stay. You begged me to stay. You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow.”

·         “I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.”

Both of the quotes go with the summary of what I read because they both are about Adam’s promise.

This is New York, and it reminds me of the part where Mia is giving Adam her secret tour of all of her favorite places.