Friday, September 10, 2010

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver is perhaps the second best book I ever read (Thirteen Reasons Why takes the gold). It is a "Groundhog Day meets Mean Girls hybrid."
When Samantha Kingston calls shotgun in the car of her drunk best friend after a party, the car swirvs off the road, killing Sam, she must live out Friday, February 12th six more times, until everything has been righted. Sam is immensely popular-at the expense of everyone hating her. Not only is this Friday "Cupid Day"-the one day a year where underclassmen dress up as fairies, angels, etc and drop off roses to the school, but it is the day she has planed to have sex with her boyfriend, Rob, for the first time, and Rob's been waiting. The day starts off as any other in her life: woken up by he lisping kid sister, Izzy, then rushing to get dressed to make it in to Linsday's gigantic car (lovingly known as "The Tank") and eats her sesame seed bagel from Dunkin Donuts.Ally's already in the car, and the pack is complete after they pick up Elody. The ride is uneventful, but they steal the last good parking space from the swimmer girl, whose almost (but not really) their friend. And that costs her her spot in the swim team sectionals. Of course, every year, they deliver a rose to Juliet Sykes-the grade freak. It reads "maybe next year, but probably not." What they don't know is what the rose's message will drive her to do, what Sam must stop from happening before she can stop reliving Friday, Febuary 12th.

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