Author: Lauren Oliver
Genre: Coming of Age, drama
Rating: 8
I'm still angry, and I haven't really even finished the book. And I don't know if I'm going too. Lauren, you're killing me.
Before I Fall is about super popular Sam, ala Mean Girls and her last day of life, all of times it happens. Sam lives her last Cupid Day like any other, until the car crashes and she wakes up once more on Cupid Day morning. Sam must decide what she has to do to get out of the loop of forever repeating her last day, and hope she comes out on the better side of things.
For the most part I did like this book. Asher's quote on the cover is perfectly correct, you have to tear through this book. The characters themselves were not the most likeable of characters and what they do were not exactly a picture of my high school years, but as a high school teacher I can see these things happening.
What I liked most about the book was how you got to learn more about the connections between the characters and their backgrounds, even though you were running through the same day. You got the same picture seven different ways through various people's point of view, much like Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, another book I was quite smitten with.
I'm too disgruntled to start reading Delerium, another of her novels just yet, but it is on my to-read list. And honestly, if I wasn't so mad right now, this book would probably have a higher score. I hold grudges.
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