Before I Fall Author: Lauren Oliver | Language: English | ISBN:
B0038B99PK | Format: PDF
Before I Fall Description
With this stunning debut novel, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver emerged as one of today's foremost authors of young adult fiction. Like Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why and Gayle Forman's If I Stay, Before I Fall raises thought-provoking questions about love, death, and how one person's life can affect so many others.
For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—"Cupid Day"—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is…until she dies in a terrible accident that night.
However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.
Named to numerous state reading lists, this novel was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly. It has been optioned for film by Fox 2000 Pictures.
Supports the Common Core State Standards.
- File Size: 555 KB
- Print Length: 496 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; Reprint edition (March 2, 2010)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0038B99PK
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,003 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
I have to say that after reading the prologue and the first chapter I really thought of not finishing the book. I was completely annoyed with Samantha and her friends. There is underage drinking and they are all concerned with who the last virgin is going to be. They are the popular girls that make fun of everyone and they don't care about the after effects. They are selfish, self-centered, and insecure.
I had a really hard time liking any of the characters. So, why did I keep reading? Well because it is beautifully written and I kept hoping knowing that Sam was reliving the same day that either she or her friends would change.
There are only 7 chapters and they are all really, really long. It would have been nice if they had been broken into smaller chapters. Although I do get the 7 chapters cause Sam does relive her day 7 times so, each one is a new day.
The last 3 chapters were better for me than the first ones. We do learn things about her friends and why they are the way that they are their insecurities. Although to find out the secret that Lindsey had been hiding, the reason she held a grudge and was mean to Juliet, was crazy. I couldn't believe it came down one tiny thing that had happened so long ago and Lindsey let it hold her captive for so long. (I guess though we all can tend to do that from time to time.) Sam and her friends though didn't even know the secret but went along with the name calling and everything else that Lindsey wanted against Juliet.
I also couldn't believe what Sam did on one of the days with one of her teachers. They apparently always flirted and I don't care that it was a day that she didn't care because she was so frustrated with reliving the day that she was going to do whatever she wanted.
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