A review by linkwithlinda
Before I Fall Enhanced Edition by Lauren Oliver
3.0
I didn't get this book.
Maybe because I wasn't a popular mean girl, so I couldn't relate. I also found myself conflicted by the storyline. *SPOILERS AHEAD!*
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I prefer books with unhappy or open endings, but given that from prologue, you are reading the ending over and over again, I thought maybe that the actual ending would change in the epilogue and Sam would learn something more profound and save everyone and herself and get blissed out with Kent, but no, there's just no way a happy ending could come of this, so the fact that there was closure, but that it was not happy, didn't settle with me. I found myself disappointed somehow. Perhaps a re-read may change my view...we'll see--it was repetitive enough the first time.
Maybe because I wasn't a popular mean girl, so I couldn't relate. I also found myself conflicted by the storyline. *SPOILERS AHEAD!*
*SPOILERS AHEAD!*
*SPOILERS AHEAD!*
*SPOILERS AHEAD!*
I prefer books with unhappy or open endings, but given that from prologue, you are reading the ending over and over again, I thought maybe that the actual ending would change in the epilogue and Sam would learn something more profound and save everyone and herself and get blissed out with Kent, but no, there's just no way a happy ending could come of this, so the fact that there was closure, but that it was not happy, didn't settle with me. I found myself disappointed somehow. Perhaps a re-read may change my view...we'll see--it was repetitive enough the first time.