Saturday, September 25, 2010

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Author:Lauren Oliver
Reading Level:Young Adult
Publisher:HarperCollins

Rated 9.5/10

MAYBE you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can breathe in it, roll around in it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it.

But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

WHAT IF you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?

Samantha Kingston has it all: the world's most crush-worthy boyfriend, three amazing best friends, and first pick of everything at Thomas Jefferson High, from the best table in the cafeteria to the choicest parking spot. Friday, February 12, should be just another day in her charmed life.

Instead, it turns out to be her last. Then she gets a second chance. Seven chances in fact. Reliving her last day during one miraculous week, she will untangle the mystery surrounding her death, and discover the true value of everything she is in danger of losing

MY REVIEW
I really like this book, wouldn't it be something to be able to live the last day of your life over and over until you make everything right? Wehn I first started reading this book I didn't know what to expect and to be honest the first 100 pages I hated the book, it had something to do with the fact that I hated Samantha and her friends more than it did with the actual writing. In the beginning I though she got what she deserved but towards the middle I started to really feel sorry for Sam and started rooting for her and that's when I started liking it. I think this book does show us how kids and teenagers can truly be like and it isn't a very pretty picture to see.

Sam is the popular girl at school, the girl everyone wants to be and loves to hate. It's not like Sam doesn't earn that hate, always picking on others and never being nice. It's cupid day at school, February 12, one of Sam's favorite days, the day where one can  flaunt one's popularity at school by having the most roses. Sam goes through the day like any other normal day not knowing it's her last day. That night after a party Sam is driving home with her three best friends when they go off the road and Sam dies. Death isn't anything she envisioned it would be and she wakes up in the morning to find it's February 12 again and she has to repeat that day over and over. Sam learns that through the good and bad choices we make that we influence our lives and others around us and that things and people aren't always what they seem. Sam learns how cruel she was and tries to change things, not just because she wants to end this day but because in the end she really wants to change.

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