She is, after all, the type of girl you’d love to hate. She would have lived the same way, wouldn’t have changed anything until the fatal car crash that took her life and the altering week that came after it where she relived her final day seven more times.Īt first, it’s hard to feel for Sam. Sam is your typical popular girl – pretty, has a hot boyfriend, part of the popular clique, gets away with everything, invited to all the coolest parties – in short, she lives a charmed life. Says Samantha Kingston, Lauren Oliver’s main protagonist in her 2009 YA debut Before I Fall. Is it really so much worse than what you do? Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does? There are probably some of you who think I deserved it because I was going to let Rob go all the way – because I wasn’t going to save myself.īut before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you: is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Maybe I shouldn’t have said those things to Kent. Maybe I shouldn’t have copied off Lauren Lornet’s quiz. Maybe I shouldn’t have sent that rose to Juliet or dumped my drink on her at the party. “I know some of you are thinking I deserved it.
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