The novel is written by Lauren Oliver. Basically, the main character, Sam Kingston, is the typical popular high school teen who goes to a party with her friends. Then gets into a drunk car crash and dies. For the next 7 days, she has to relive her last day.
I'm only a little way into the book, but I can guess the book is going to focus on the change in Sam throughout the 7 days. She'll probably realize how much better life is when you live it for genuine happiness and love. That was like a really informal prediction of the book. But the point is that Sam thinks she has everything she wants. I mean she is happy, but this is all superficial happiness. She basically has to tell herself she's happy and so in love. The book has also brought up a good point on the cruelness of bullying and the carelessness of teenagers in high school.
Focussing more on the character of Sam Kingston. She's snotty, mean, self-centered, etc. Let's just say you would probably hate her and all her friends. Lets just look at something she said: "I'm not going to lie, though. It's nice that everything's easy for us. It's a good feeling knowing that you can basically do whatever you want and there won't be any consequences...Nobody ever said life was fair" (p. 13). She is just sooo grateful for everything. I don't know about you but this quote just shows me how little she knows about other people's lives. People are out there with nothing, no clothes, food, money, and she just says "life's not fair". She's going to waste her days drinking and smoking because that's what "cool" kids do. Good thing she's going to change right?
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