My friend, coworker, and fellow YA aficionado, Diane from Teen Book Fanatics has been trying to get me to read Lauren Oliver’s books for a long time. Just about every time I talk to her she asks if I’ve read one – or if I’ve read the new one – or just in some way mentions Lauren Oliver. So – finally I reserved one at the library way back in August but I kept putting off reading it because it’s long and it looked like it might be a little depressing (you may remember I was reading a lot of depressing YA there for awhile…)
Our library book supply has dwindled down to less than 10 books and there’s not much left to choose from so I started Before I Fall on Tuesday night. I read about ΒΌ of it because… it was indeed feeling depressing. It also has a “Groundhog Day” type of theme and while I’m a fan of the movie and I liked that other YA book I read with that theme – I wasn’t feeling this one. So I put it down for the night, picked it up again last night after Survivor… and I couldn’t put it down.
I’m still tired of the Groundhog Day type of theme and it doesn’t really have the happiest of happy endings, though it is the right ending – I liked it. I see now why Diane is such a fan. And, I’ll be reserving another Lauren Oliver title this weekend.
Thanks for the recommendation, Diane!