The book that I am reading is if I Stay what is happening in the book right now is something happened with Mia's body and she had to go into surgery. But she didn't follow her body into surgery she just stayed in the ICU until her body came out. All of these monitors started going off and  these all of these nurses flooded her room and then they took her into surgery, it over whelmed her and she couldn't follow herself with everything that was going on. Once her body came back her whole family could visit her and her Grams and Gramps come in and they just sit down next to her and start talking her her like any regular conversation except for Mia can't respond. Willow is now her nurse because for some reason she doesn't have to be at her old hospital anymore and Mia thinks that that reason is because her brother died and Willow can;t do anything else for him so there is no reason for her to be at her old hospital anymore.

     The way that Gayle Forman has been building suspense in his book is by Mia not being alive and talking to people but she is not dead because she can see everyone around her and she can walk around. This builds great suspense because you don't know what is going to happening to Mia and weather she is going to live or not. It is so hard for Mia right now to figure out what is happening to her because she doesn't know what to do. Mia has got this thought in her brain that she has to decide weather she wants to stay or not,but she doesn't know how to decide or even if she know what she would pick yet. She isn't ready for that decision and that creates a lot of suspense because you just want to know what she is going to chose, weather to stay or not, and how she is going to chose it.

     This is a very effective way to create suspense. It is effective because is it keeping the reader on the hook of wanting to know more. You aren't reeling them in but you are not leaving the rope too loose you are just keeping a little tug onto the rope which is enough to keeping them wanting to know more. You want to know weather Mia is going to stay or not and it is killing me inside to not know. I think that Gayle Forman couldn't have picked a better way to build suspense and I can't wait to know what happens in the end.