A review by mrs_a_is_a_book_nerd
Leave Me by Gayle Forman

2.0

Meh. I loved If I Stay, but everything I've read by Gayle Forman since has left me disappointed. The premise was seductive: A 44-year-old wife and mother of twins who works full-time as an editor for a trendy magazine suffers a heart attack and undergoes a bypass surgery. She is subsequently terrified that her busy life was going to end up killing her and yearning to be cared for in a way her husband and visiting mother seem unable to do, she does something desperate: she packs a bag with her meds and a few changes of clothes, withdraws $25,000 from her savings, and leaves, to take care of herself. She ends up in Pittsburgh, searching for the identity of her birth mother, and clues about the health history she may have inherited and passed on to her children.
As the plot unfolds and Maribeth settles in to her new, anonymous life as M.B., she has to decide who she wants to be and if she wants to go back to her old life.
It was fine, but not as complicated as I think the situation would be in real life. I also felt that the end was flat.