If I Stay

Fans of Young Adult (YA) Literature love their vampires and werewolves and everything fantastical in between. True, most of the novels have love stories as the larger plot, but it is the adrenaline stuff that keeps the readers hooked. Gayle Forman must have decided that these readers need something with more depth, which is why she wrote If I Stay, a story of a girl in a "battle between fate and self-will" (Thuy On). And like most YA novels, the acceptance of this one, too, will depend on the fate of the movie.

Because, let's face it, the subject matter is a little too heavy to....