Now, I’m completely biased with my next comment, but I didn’t feel that there was enough of a connection between Mia and her boyfriend. It would be really hard to cope with that kind of loss. I’m not sure if I would decide to stay if I’d be an orphan and my young brother was gone. If Mia really could decide to live or die, she’d have to come to terms with the people closest to her being gone. Essentially, when you’re time comes you don’t care what you did, but who you shared your life experiences with. While Mia is trying to decide whether to move on or stay she thinks about a lot of things we take for granted, like spending time with family, friends, and significant others. That seems like something very insignificant, but now that I can’t share that time with her I really miss it. Seeing as I have lost two very important people in my life, I do miss the small things. The story was great, but it didn’t have enough emotion for me and I didn’t really relate to the characters who all seemed to be these hipster music people to me.Įven though I wasn’t fond of the personalities of the characters, I did enjoy the overall message of the book (or at least what I thought was the message). I thought I would cry while reading the book, but nothing ever came. I was really looking forward to reading this book and finally purchased it from Target. Simultaneously tragic and hopeful, this is a romantic, riveting and ultimately uplifting story about memory, music, living, dying, loving.” Caught between life and death, between a happy past and an unknowable future, Mia spends one critical day contemplating the one decision she has left-the most important decision she’ll ever make.

Then, in an instant, almost all of that is taken from her. “Mia had everything: a loving family, a gorgeous, adoring boyfriend, and a bright future full of music and full of choices.

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