Name: Before I Fall / Le dernier jour de ma vie
Rating: 3.81296992481203 (532 reviews)
ISBN: 9782016259276

Lauren Oliver

Alice Delarbre

LE ROMAN À SUCCÈS À L'ORIGINE DU FILM DIFFUSÉ SUR NETFLIX À PARTIR DU 7 JUILLET 2017. Samantha Kingstone a tout pour elle : le petit copain le plus craquant du monde, trois meilleures amies géniales, et une cote de popularité illimitée. Ce vendredi de février aurait donc dû être un jour parfait dans une vie parfaite. Pourtant ce vendredi de février est le dernier pour Sam. Ou le premier ?

Before I Fall / Le dernier jour de ma vie

Before i fall

★★★★☆
4.00 STARS 

This book is actually quite sad, it left a surprisingly heaviness in my chest. Not only because a girl named Samantha, one of the popular girl who's not the most perfect, had to lived the final day of her life seven times, but because she had to live through it before she can understand the true meaning of how to live your life. I specifically liked Sam's character development, each and every day she had to repeat her final day. How little by little, she improved and she managed to open her mind with something so important. The ending seemed so abrupt in a way, I actually thought how dissatisfied I was after reading the epilogue. I remember feeling a bit hopeful about what was going to happen at the end. Hopeful that somehow, it will all fall into places. But the ending really caught me off guard. I wanted more. I actually wished the ending offered more. But after pondering about the ending after a while, it seemed...suitable.

A chance. She was given a chance to make everything right, not because she needed it to live through her life but because she has to feel the goodnes in making everything right. Not a chance to live again and live her life in a new light but to see the importance of everything before she leave. And that is the saddest yet most amazing part thing about this book. That you don't have to pretend that you are making it all okay just so you could save yourself. Sometimes you have to understand life and make sacrifices.

PS: I just hope there was a little more of Sam and Kent.

Daniel Spruill

Breathtaking. Emotionally draining. Perfect.

chloe rae

So let me just start off this review by saying that I bought this book on my kindle, expecting it to be a light, fun read. And it wasn't at all what I expected. It was AMAZING. Like, HOLY TOMATO, it's good. I just remember starting this in bed, with my book light and comfy jammies on. And I don't remember sleeping that night. I just got so invested in the horrible problem this girl got dealt with, having to live a day over and over again; to change it and fix it, rearrange it. She kept trying to get it right and I was right there with her, waiting for that moment. By the end of it you're dreading the inevitable ending, but you accept it, just like how you accept the choices you make in your own life. A great read, but be prepared to stay up all night and basically kill your book lights battery. Just a warning.

Before I Fall

Annika Arguemore

It's like I've just read a twisted yet introspective version of Mean Girls with a little bit of Skins added into it. And death being the center of it all. It's just one of those books, you know? When you have to read until the end to see if it's worth pursuing or not. I'm glad to say that it was. 

Quite the concoction, this novel turned out to be. It's retrospective. It's extraordinary. It's beautiful in a certain way. I can't word it exactly but I guess I'd have to try. It's the kind of beautiful that's striking and wistful. The kind of beautiful that asks you to look closer, that you have to look closer. That you have to delve deeper to know that it's not what it seems, that it's more than that, that it's not superficial.

★★★★★ // Groundhog Day for the young adults. loved it.

debre

started the book hating Sam and her friends, ended the book crying so much because I wanted it to have a different and happier ending, but I know it was impossible. I know. I love it when I read a book that's so sensible, so incredible well-written that you just feel everything the characters are feeling because you can't help but think they are real, you know? I just am feeling so sad because this was such an incredible read and the characters were so real I feel overwhelmed with so many emotions. thank you so much for the lessons, Sam. I'll never forget.

Yasmin Dunnewind

The second half was much better than the first half of the book. I was in such a slump by this book, bc I just didn't find the first half of the story interesting. It didn't captivate me, i found the mc not enjoyable. I know that a lot of people really like this book, but it just didn't hold me the way some other books do.

Victoria

Wow. Okay...wow. 

I don't know how else to put it. I mean, I've started reading this multiple times and have put it down multiple times as well until finally deciding that I have to actually finish reading the book before the year ends because the movie adaptation comss out next year. Yes, give it to me to actually have movie adaptations of books serve as my motivation (more like a giant push, if you ask me) to finish up a novel. 

Well going back, I finally finished it in a matter of days because the mid to latter part seemed more interesting to me than the beginning. I'm not sure why I didn't like it more during the first few parts. I mean, the premise of the story seems promising: waking up on the same day over and over again? Who wouldn't be intrigued and who wouldn't want to know what happens next or what happens in the end, right?

But I don't know. Maybe it's the writing that threw me off? Ugh. 

Anyway, it was refreshing, though, to read a YA book that for once is not about the bullied kid. This time it's about the popular kids, the bitches, the jerks. We all hated them at some point when we were in high school but really, it's nice to have a novel where the protagonist is not the opressed teen. 

Okay, so overall, the story's pretty good but it's not something that would make you go "omg omg omg". Not for me, at least. Plus I'm not sure about what I feel about the ending. Actually, I don't know what I feel about this in general. Hmm. Maybe I'd like the movie better? Jeez, that's not good.

Beatrix Haase

Read this is in 2014 and really enjoyed it. Gonna have to read it again at some time.

I read this when i was a kid, reread it recently and until this day it’s still one of my favorites

I love it, all the details, the inner monologue, the realistic character development and the incredibly addictive writing 

Lulu Evensen

I read this when i was a kid, reread it recently and until this day it’s still one of my favorites

I love it, all the details, the inner monologue, the realistic character development and the incredibly addictive writing 

Rachel Kanyid

Wow... This book.... 
One of those books that is really a thought-provoker.
In my opinion it:
Really makes you wonder...How have you been treating those around you? Have you been doing and saying seemingly unimportant things to people that might affect them badly? 
How can you change that?
How can you make sure every single person knows that they are important?

Wow.. Just wow.
I love thought provoking books.
The writing style could have been a little better.
The characters could have been a little more fleshed out.
But it was really good.

Jeannette Ordas

I wasn't sure about this book from the beginning, but mid-way through I was curious how this book was all going to end up. Call me impressed. 3.5 stars.

I read this after reading the Delirium series, and I absolutely loved that, so I guess my expectations were a little too high, plus I had no idea this was her first book.

I really did not like it at first. It was hard to empathize with Sam because she was everything I wasnt. Her environment, her friends, her school, her activities was totally against my standards, plus she was you typical famous-gorgeous-bitchy-bully and usually the antagonist in books Ive read. 

I love how, in the middle, she started to realize everything she missed through the years. She began to see Kent and Julie and Anna in ways she didnt before. They seemed more human than her friends. She began appreciating her family more, and she realized all the things she lost when she changed. Somehow, I think she's a represntation of so many teenagers these days. We try so hard to fit in and be wanted, we forget the things that actually matter, the important things. We want to be loved by people, we ignore the ones at home who love us just the way we are.

Towards the end though, I was catching on and I was totally hooked. This book shows the best of humanity. There was no perfect fantasy and false pretnses about thoughtful girls who saves the community. This was the real world, she was real, the kind of people we see everyday. She was flawed and imperfect, and it took her a week to see things properly, but it shows the worst of us have good inside of us.

Gisela Ayala 

Wow, what I just read just wow. I have no words at all. 

My first Lauren Oliver book and I'm just left speechless. Her writing is absolutely stunning. The language is rich and the dialogue is beyond perfection. The actual story, though... my dear, my heart is breaking into little pieces as I'm typing this. Usually, I wait a few hours or a day to write a review but I just want to get this over with. I don't want to feel this way. 

The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars (which I think it fully deserves) is because I was not satisfied with the ending and I was hoping for another outcome. Other than that...phenomenal and beautifully sad. 

Before I Fall is a word of warning and a prayer all in one to us all.

Before I Fall / Le dernier jour de ma vie

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