By: Lauren Oliver
Genre: Teen Fiction
Stars: 2 out of 5
Samantha Kingston has it all. The money, the friends, the boyfriend, what in the world could go wrong? On the night of Cupid Day, everything did go wrong. After a house party, on the way home, an accident happened and Samantha Kingston died. But then she wakes up the next day – Cupid Day. Sam has to relive the day she dies seven times. Each time she figures out that she must save a girl who Sam and her friends drove to suicide, the greatest boyfriend ever turns out to be her geeky childhood friend, she has taken her family for granted and the friends she thought she knew aren’t the best people. Can Sam fix the mistakes she had made that day and save a life while trying to save her own?
I am in a Teen Lit Book Club and this is this month’s book. It sounded interesting a girl reliving her last day on Earth to try to fix the mistakes she has made but it really just is a book version of the movie Groundhogs Day. I thought retelling the same day seven times was a bit too much. Four days would have been sufficient to tell the story. And the ending really bothered me. The main character learns that she has to save the unpopular girl from committing suicide and the way she does it does not fix the problem, it seems as though it makes it worse. It does not seem that Sam lived out her purpose. I don’t know, I just had some questions at the end and I cannot wait to discuss them at book club. I would like to say though that if you don’t like teen books or morbid teen subjects are probably not going to like this book that much.
