There are few positive role models in this book. This book talks a little about how the characters had to change themselves to fit in and be popular, which isn’t a great message to be sending. I don’t know so much about positive messages. I would say that this does have some level of social educational value, as bullying is a serious issue that people don’t really know what to do with. Towards the end, though, she realizes the error of her ways and try’s her best to make them right. In the beginning, the main character, Sam Kingston, is just another annoying popular girl who disrespects everybody she comes across because, as she says early on, you can just ‘get away with things’ if you’re popular. However, I think this book important because it deals with bullying and the results that can come of it. The main character lives the same day over and over again, as stated on the back cover, which honestly gets to be a bit of a drag by the third day. Well, maybe my description of boring could be expected. Teens drink heavily in this novel, the main character contemplates having sex with her boyfriend ('to get it over with') at length, and heavy issues like bullying, suicide, bulimia, anorexia, and abuse are graphically uncovered throughout the story. Just like the movie Groundhog Day, she indulges in some consequence-free behaviors for the fun of it - drinking, hooking up with a teacher - and must go from a very unpleasant person (popular 'It' girl everyone secretly hates) to a better person by the end. Parents need to know that the hook of this popular teen novel is that the main character discovers she's dead after a car accident and that she can relive and study the 24 hours before in detail. Sam's best friend Lindsay smokes cigarettes constantly.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.

One girl smokes pot in a school restroom.

Sam and her friends drink frequently and take vodka with them to most events Sam gets drunk to help her go through with sex for the first time they attend frequent keggers and it's acknowledged that there is nothing to do at their high school besides drink her boyfriend gets so drunk he passes out.

Before i fall book review