BEFORE I FALL
by Lauren Oliver
WARNING: SPOILER ALERT
This lengthy novel is an engaging and deeply engrossing
story about a high schooler experiencing an other-worldly event that teaches
her lessons about courage, loyalty, compassion and selflessness. I loved Ms. Oliver's expert plotting
and development of characters, description and mood-setting. This is definitely a page-turner.
The only quarrel I have with the book is the hugely
unsatisfying ending.
Spoiler alert:
Presenting suicide as a lofty conclusion is not just unhealthy, it is
misleading.
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