By : Blanca Juarez Rodriguez February 16, 2016
Where She Went, is a book narrated by Adam Wilde, one of the main characters, and written by Gayle Forman. Gayle Forman has also written If I Stay, and I Was Here. Adam says, “Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it’s the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.” which describes his situation of having trouble moving on from his past, Mia. Adam throughout this book talks about grief and love.
Where She Went is the second book to If I Stay. If I Stay and Where She Went are both narrated by different characters which allows the audience to see both sides of the story, Mia Hall narrates If I Stay while Adam Wilde narrates
Where She Went. They both have interesting sides of the story, but Adam’s is more aggressive than Mia’s.
Mia had everything she could've ever wished for ,until one day almost everything was gone. So that day Mia had to make the most important decision of her life, which was whether she'd of stay or leave. Three years later the story continues but from Adam’s perspective, and one night they are reunited once again so they give revisit their past and open their hearts to each other and the future.
The book Where She Went, helps the audience understand the series better with flash backs of the way things were before Mia’s accident. It also helps to be able to put things together. And like Adam said, “I’ve become to realize there’s a world of difference between knowing something happened, and even knowing why it happened, and believing it.”
Where She Went
By: Gayle Forman
208 pages
For ages 14 and up