Personal Narrative-Fiction

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I wish I could start this off by saying that I was wary of or excited about this book when I first picked it up off the shelf at my local library but I can’t. In fact I had no opinion of it at all. I had known it had existed for some time, having passed by it many times over the years, but I had never stopped to look and see what it was actually about. Now I wish I had. Upon reading the dust cover I immediately began to be sucked into the story the way you often are when finding an interesting read. Already I wanted to know what happened to Mia, to her family, and to the mysterious Adam who was telling Mia to “Stay.” in the short excerpt.
I’m a huge fan of books that involve romance (but not the overly mushy, fluffy stuff) music, the supernatural,

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