Samantha’s best friends are funny, likable, and maddening, but readers will love Samantha best as she hurtles toward an end as brave as it is heartbreaking. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver 4.4 (1952) Paperback (Reprint) 11.99 Hardcover 17.99 Paperback 11.99 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 0. “how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new”). , Oliver’s debut novel is raw, emotional, and, at times, beautiful (“It amazes me how easy it is for things to change,” Samantha thinks. –style plot, make no mistake: evocative of Jenny Downham’s Before I Die If this sounds too much like a Groundhog Day She faces the often tragic consequences of even the smallest acts, awakens to the casual cruelties all around her, and tries to get things right and maybe even redeem herself. But Samantha is living a nightmare: throughout the book, she relives the day of her death seven times, with some dramatic alterations and revelations depending on her choices-ditching school to spend time with her younger sister or, on a day when life’s rules have all but lost their meaning, seducing a teacher. Beautiful, popular Samantha and her three best friends are the ruthless queen bees of their high school.
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