Title: Before I Fall.Author: Lauren Oliver.
Publication Date: March 2nd, 2010.
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books.
Genres: Contemporary,
Young Adult.Format: Paperback, 341 pages.
Source: Bought.
My Rating: 
They say to live every day as if it's your last - but you never actually think it's going to be. You always think you'll have more time. That's what I thought. But I was wrong.
The thing is, you don't get to know when it happens. You don't remember to tell your family that you love them or - in my case - remember to say goodbye to them at all.
What if, like me, you could live your last day over again? Could you make it perfect? If your whole life flashed before your eyes, would you have any regrets? Are there things you'd want to change?
Review
Sam is just your average, popular girl, waking up one day on Cupid's day - a day most people are eagerly anticipating. The evening involves a party, which is loud and parent less. On the way home with her friends that night, the best friends; Sam, Lindsay, Ally and Elody are in a car accident and Sam is pretty sure she's dead when things go black. However, Sam wakes up in the morning to the same day, the same conversations, and the same party. Sam has seven days to make her last day on earth right, to set things straight, to change what happened.
I'd heard a lot of hype about this book and I thought it sounded really interesting so I started reading it. I have to say, at first, I wasn't overly impressed and was debating about just putting it down. I wasn't sure how I'd keep reading repetition and everything. However, the more I read, the more amazing the book got.
I don't usually like overly popular characters, because they're so full of themselves and makes me want to strangle them, and that's what Sam's and her friend’s characters are. However, Sam's character develops over the books and she begins to wonder why she's being to mean and rude to people she barely knows and judging people before she knows who they really are. She changes and grows and only when that started happening did I actually like her character.
This book plays with your emotions and had me crying at different points throughout it. I thought I knew what Sam would do next, but her character constantly surprised me and was always doing things I didn't think she'd ultimately do.
Overall, I thought this book was amazing. It's written in a way that makes you actually think about what you're reading, rather than racing your way through the book without taking in all the details about everything. It makes you realise that any day could be your final day living, and that you should make the most out of the time you have and not fritter it away being rude or dwelling on the past. I can't wait to read more from Lauren Oliver, she's an incredible writer! :)
Quotes
'How come Sam always gets shotgun?'
'Because you're always too drunk to call it.' - Page 88.
'You are so lucky your parents give you a credit card,' Courtney says, trotting after me as we leave the store. 'I've been begging mine for years. They say I have to wait until I'm in college.'
'They didn't exactly give it to me,' I say, raising one eyebrow. Her mouth falls open. - Page 167.
'Will you stop that?' Elody leans forward and presses my fingers - which have been tapping - flat against the table. 'You're driving me crazy.'
'You're not turning rexi, are you, Sam?' Lindsay gestures to my sandwich, which I've only nibbled around the edges. Rexi is her word for anorexic, although I've always thought it sounded like something you would name a dog. - Page 258.
