Title: Before I Die
Author: Jenny Downham
Genre: Young Adult
Comment: Tessa is like any other, average 16-year old girl. Expect she has been battling leukemia since she was diagnosed at 12-years old. She refuses any chemotherapy, because she hates the side-effects during the process but doctors still continue to monitor her heath and find different solutions. Yet Tessa knows the her days are numbered and death is coming. In sadness that she will not get to experience life and grow old, Tessa makes a list of things that she wants to do before she dies. Throughout the book she goes through her list and tries her best to complete each thing.
Before I Die is definitely a tearjerker. The cold reality of Tessa's eventual death is forever hanging in air, and as the book draws to end, it is hard to see all of her relatives and friends start to come to terms with it. The whole book opens your eyes to the true worth of life, and the value of each moment. It definitely made me more aware of the ways things could be worse, and who 99% of the time, the little things that seem to be huge and terrible, aren't really that way. Tessa's story is a very sad one, and as New York Times says, "The reader can finish this first novel about a 16-year-old girl dying of leukemia feeling thrillingly alive." I would recommend this book to people who enjoyed, Thirteen Reasons Why and Deadline.
Genre: Young Adult
Comment: Tessa is like any other, average 16-year old girl. Expect she has been battling leukemia since she was diagnosed at 12-years old. She refuses any chemotherapy, because she hates the side-effects during the process but doctors still continue to monitor her heath and find different solutions. Yet Tessa knows the her days are numbered and death is coming. In sadness that she will not get to experience life and grow old, Tessa makes a list of things that she wants to do before she dies. Throughout the book she goes through her list and tries her best to complete each thing.
Before I Die is definitely a tearjerker. The cold reality of Tessa's eventual death is forever hanging in air, and as the book draws to end, it is hard to see all of her relatives and friends start to come to terms with it. The whole book opens your eyes to the true worth of life, and the value of each moment. It definitely made me more aware of the ways things could be worse, and who 99% of the time, the little things that seem to be huge and terrible, aren't really that way. Tessa's story is a very sad one, and as New York Times says, "The reader can finish this first novel about a 16-year-old girl dying of leukemia feeling thrillingly alive." I would recommend this book to people who enjoyed, Thirteen Reasons Why and Deadline.
Your post makes me want to read the book. I think you did a really good job describing it. Maybe you could put down some of the things she wanted to do and how she went about doing them otherwise great job.
ReplyDeletethis sounds like a really good book and it reminds me of the movie 'The Bucket List' and the book/movie 'My Sister's Keeper' put into one!
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