"Stay" (spolier)

The book “Stay” by Deb Caletti is a really good, complex book. It’s about a girl named Clara. Clara is like any other teenage girl. She thinks of herself as normal and she feels pretty much normal.

But then Clara finds true love and her life turns into a complete crazy mess in good and bad ways. At first Christian seemed perfectly harmless and normal. They meet each other and it was love at first sight. They are harmless and just two cute people who spend all their time together.

But then Christian gets more and more obsessive and it gets worse. Clara can’t even have dinner without him being there. It gets so bad that he starts stalking her and Clara gets scared.

I were Clara I would be really scared. I mean it would be so scary to be stalked. Even if it is your boyfriend. They didn’t even know each other for that long and that’s really creepy. Clara tries to break up with him but he doesn’t leave her a long. Eventually they even have to go as far as tell her dad and call the police.

This story makes me think a lot about how intense that must be for a family. Clara’s mom died in the story. You don’t find out until the end that she drowned and that it was the dads fault. It was a really intense scene and really scary. Especially since after that, Clara almost drowned.

In this book a few perspectives are missing. I think that the Dad is definitely a big part of the story and the author didn’t put him in the story un purpose. It would make a much bigger difference if the dad wasn’t part of the story. The author is trying to show how hard it is especially for just Clara and the dad is part of it but if they put what he was thinking in the story it wouldn’t be as powerful and emotional.