ORR #4: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Name of Book: Before I Fall
Author: Lauren Oliver
Pages Read: 470/470
Genre: Teen

I've finished reading the book, and I really loved it. Everything from the descriptions of the main characters day, to the dilemmas the character is going through. It's a really great book even though, at the beginning, I thought it wasn't. At the end, the main character, Sam relives her death day for the last time. She can see that something is changed, she just feels different. She had a good day and tried to change everything to the best of her ability. She took and sent a rose to a not so popular girl, Juliet Sykes, because their lives are intertwined. If Juliet were to die so would Sam. Another thing she does is she tells a guy how she feels and that makes her feel good. The day goes pretty normal, until the party where her plan is to find out how to burst the buble she was found in. The first thing she does is she leaves Lindsay's car (that she died in initially) at home so that she just has more chance to save Juliet. Then the guy she likes, Kent, comes and pickes her up so that she is now at the party and ready to save Juliet. Later Sam realizes that Juliet is in the woods and she chases her down trying to talk Juliet out of killing herself. After a talk Juliet gives up and jumps in front of a car, but before the car is able to hit her, Samantha (Sam) jumps and moves Juliet out of the way. When they come crashing on the ground, Juliet is starttled and she thanks Sam for saving her, when Sam replies, "no, thanks for saving me." That is when the chapter ends and the main character is "talking" to us explaining what she has to say in the epilogue, and she finishes the book saying the rest you need to find out for yourselves. 

The book is greatly written and I would love to read it again. The story is ended on sort of a cliff hanger and all we are left with is the power and imagination of our minds to create the ending for ourselves. The book is sad and unique in the way that we don't have the book ending in a happily ever after but we have the story ending with the main character being dead and telling us a story about death and dying. I recommend this book to eveyone who likes a little mystery.