Samantha Kingston is a senior attending Thomas Jefferson High School, ranked among the top ten booziest public schools of all Connecticut or nicknamed Suicide High after a group of students left the school and drove off a bridge. Among other perks of this institution there is a popularity rank between students, luckily Lindsay ''The Group Leader'' rescued Samantha from the social bottom in seventh grade and now lives in the inner circle along with her two other friends Ally and Elody and her boyfriend Rob.
The story starts on a chilly February morning on Cupid Day with the four friends chatting on the latest gossip and how much roses will each one get. In Thomas Jefferson High the number of roses you receive is quite a huge deal, it ranks your popularity and beauty, this year Lindsay is shooting for twenty-five. While the day moves on the girls get invited to party at Kent's, a weird guy that was Sam's best friend in elementary school and supposedly has a crush on her. After school they all crash at Ally's to get ready for the party and have two shots of vodka and head to the party. As they reach the party Samantha feels weird, like the night doesn't flow. Rob is drunk and the four girls just had a discussion with Juliet Sykes ''Pyscho Girl''. They head outside and leave the party, its past midnight and it rains like crazy, but suddenly everything changes they're all talking when a bright light gets in their way and..... darkness. All of a sudden Samantha wakes up in her bed and remembers what she thinks was a strange dream of yesterday but her sister Izzy tells her to get ready for school since it's Cupid Day (AGAIN!?) Sam doesn't get is it a dejavú? And again she heads to the party and everything follows the same and Darkness comes again.
In the start of the book Samantha talks about death; she tells you how from one second to the other everything changes. The quote,''You don't remember to tell your parents that you love them or- in my case- remember to say good-bye to them at all (Oliver 7.) While reading this passage it made me think we need to live in the moment, the things that matter are NOW not tomorrow not yesterday. It made me realize that people have to live in the present and be thankful for what the have because one day the won't.
Then as the story moves forward we learn that Sam's grandma was a crazy old lady and was ''loosing it'' and how Samantha used to say, ''I hope I die young (Oliver, 44.)'' I find this quote very shocking and completely disagree with it, life has so so so much to offer; and even through hard times we have to learn to appreciate them because those experiences are the things that make a person who they are.Before I Fall is a really weird novel, even though the stories problem is extreme and twisted this book shows relatable conflicts. Through its pages I can see how bullying affects people, illustrates what problems teenagers feel and societies' reactions. My prediction is that Samantha will discover the true meaning and importance of life in her last days, she will understand what weights more in life and find true friendship.
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