BR#1: Before I fall.

Lauren Oliver's Before I fall is a page turning, interesting, entertaining book that will keep you reading for more.

One of the themes in the book is that you are left with many choices in life, but you just have to make the right one. Samantha relives Friday, February 12th seven times. Each day, she makes different choices to try and change the outcome of the day. The third time Sam wakes up on the same day, she chooses to completely rebel. She gets to school late, skips most of her classes, seduces her teacher, and smokes marijuana. The days following, Sam tries to be a better person.

With the author using the main character as the first person, it gives me a real teenage view of how girls look at high school life in this generation. I liked the fact that the author gave real life actions and experiences that teenagers go through, and how the author used slang and updated words that readers can understand. The book was somewhat funny. Parts of it had some humor, but overall, it was a dramatic story. The narrator's voice is stuck up and kind of care free, but during the end of the book, she decides to be a good person and turns her actions around. During the whole book, she repeats the same day of the last day that she will ever live, but each day she makes a better decisions and tries to make things right.

The writer makes me believe that all the characters are real, because the people in the book are the people that I've known all my life. Some of the characters are very rebellious and it makes me wanna grab them by the neck and choke them because of how horrible they act around people. For example, Samantha tries to seduce her teacher by giving him a flirtatious and exposing conversation with him. Samantha was also said to be smoking weed with a girl in the bathroom while skipping class.

I recommend this book to anyone and everyone that loves a great story. I was recommended this by a good friend of mine and I would love everyone to read this because it is a great story!