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Before I Fall
by Lauren Oliver
1. Book Name: Before I Fall
2. Author: Lauren Oliver
3. Publisher: Harper
4. Publication Date: 2010
5. Genre: YA, fiction
6. Rating: 4/5
Popular Samantha Kingston has it all: the right friends, a hot
boyfriend, and good looks, but a fatal car accident on February 12 after a drunken party ends all of that. However, instead of dying, she wakes up the next morning on February 12 to relive the day of her death. This happens for one incredible week, in which Samantha is able to untangle the mystery of her death and see everything and everyone she has overlooked and is about to loose. These seven days enable Samantha to find a new appreciation for her family, connect with her younger sister, and even reevaluate her supposedly perfect love life.
I have read the first two books of Lauren Oliver’s highly successful Delirium Trilogy and always noticed the pretty cover of Before I Fall in the bookstore. I read a couple of positive reviews and finally decided to pick up a copy for myself last week. I was unsure as to how Oliver was going to pull off repeating one single day seven times in a 470 page book without being boring. Suffice to say, I was impressed, the initially shallow character of Samantha Kingston is revealed to be much deeper through the repetition of her day of death in how she tries to change the situation, at one point to her own favor, and then for another’s. As much as I enjoyed this book, I did find it hard to make a connection to it as my own high school experience starkly contrasted with Samantha’s, but that’s the beauty of this story since Oliver makes the reader care.
“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
2. Author: Lauren Oliver
3. Publisher: Harper
4. Publication Date: 2010
5. Genre: YA, fiction
6. Rating: 4/5
Popular Samantha Kingston has it all: the right friends, a hot
boyfriend, and good looks, but a fatal car accident on February 12 after a drunken party ends all of that. However, instead of dying, she wakes up the next morning on February 12 to relive the day of her death. This happens for one incredible week, in which Samantha is able to untangle the mystery of her death and see everything and everyone she has overlooked and is about to loose. These seven days enable Samantha to find a new appreciation for her family, connect with her younger sister, and even reevaluate her supposedly perfect love life.
I have read the first two books of Lauren Oliver’s highly successful Delirium Trilogy and always noticed the pretty cover of Before I Fall in the bookstore. I read a couple of positive reviews and finally decided to pick up a copy for myself last week. I was unsure as to how Oliver was going to pull off repeating one single day seven times in a 470 page book without being boring. Suffice to say, I was impressed, the initially shallow character of Samantha Kingston is revealed to be much deeper through the repetition of her day of death in how she tries to change the situation, at one point to her own favor, and then for another’s. As much as I enjoyed this book, I did find it hard to make a connection to it as my own high school experience starkly contrasted with Samantha’s, but that’s the beauty of this story since Oliver makes the reader care.
“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”