If I Stay

      In If I Stay, the story quickly gets into the action. After giving a basic introduction about Mia's life, the family gets into a car accident. For the rest of the book, as far as I have read at least, Mia is outside of her body in between life and death. In order to make up for a lack of background information of Mia's life, the story goes into flashbacks about her experiences as she reflects on her life. I really like this because I hate reading long, boring introductions of character's lives. This way, her past experiences are incorporated into the story in a way that makes sense with what's currently going on. I think it would be interesting to try writing a story that uses flashbacks.