I Was Here
The newest heartwrenchingly powerful novel from the bestelling author of IF I STAY. When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything--so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg's college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there's a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, and some secrets of his own. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can't open--until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend's death gets thrown into question. I Was Here is Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss.
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5 out of 5 stars
Easy read, made difficult topic easy to digest
When I made it my goal to read two books a month, I decided one has to be outside my comfort zone (fantasy). This book is definitely outside of that. It was a wonderful read, though. I read it in three days, something completely unheard of from me since high school. Foreman took a difficult topic and made a story with it that is filled with hard lessons concerning mental illness and loss. I highly suggest that everyone gives it a read, even if it is just to learn those hard lessons.
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