by Lauren Oliver
Synopsis
Sam, popular high-schooler, dies in a car accident. Then she wakes up and has to live the day she dies over and over again.
Review
I picked this book out of our stack of Advance Reading Copies with the intention of reading it closer to the release date. I hate to say that a blurb is what made me take it, but in this case the Jay Asher quote was enough for me. I got home and read the back and a wonderful review I found, and decided just to go ahead and read it. I started grad school a few weeks before and had plenty of productive things to do, but I literally could not put this book down. Seriously folks.
Sam is the best kind of character, pretty loathsome at the beginning but ever-changing as the story progresses. Some of the days, Sam does exactly what you picture a high schooler doing. Even better, she is ballsy and proactive, unlike so many female protags in YA these days.
I talked with a friend and she agreed that it was a page turner, but only "liked it". I had to disagree, the more I kept thinking about this book, the more things I liked about it. I loved it. Though I might have laughed more if she was played by Bill Murray and there was a groundhog...
I have to wait till next year to count this, but I'm pretty sure this will be on my list of top 10 books of 2010...
Snogging - an 8 on the scale
Story - 4/4 a-mazing
Character - 4/4 smart and dynamic
Pace - 4/4 a one day read
Overall - 5/5 Superb!
