Julie Anne Peters
Hardcover | Pages: 200 pages Rating: 3.88 | 21252 Users | 1880 Reviews
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| Title | : | By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead |
| Author | : | Julie Anne Peters |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 200 pages |
| Published | : | January 5th 2010 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (first published April 1st 2009) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Contemporary. Realistic Fiction. Health. Mental Health |
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Daelyn Rice is broken beyond repair, and after a string of botched suicide attempts, she’s determined to get her death right. She starts visiting a website for “completers”— www. through-the-light.com.While she’s on the site, Daelyn blogs about her life, uncovering a history of bullying that goes back to kindergarten. When she’s not on the Web, Daelyn’s at her private school, where she’s known as the freak who doesn’t talk.
Then, a boy named Santana begins to sit with her after school while she’s waiting to for her parents to pick her up. Even though she’s made it clear that she wants to be left alone, Santana won’t give up. And it’s too late for Daelyn to be letting people into her life... isn't it?
National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters shines a light on how bullying can push young people to the very edge.
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| Original Title: | By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead |
| ISBN: | 1423116186 (ISBN13: 9781423116189) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Daelyn Rice, Santana |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2010) |
Rating Containing Books By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Ratings: 3.88 From 21252 Users | 1880 ReviewsEvaluate Containing Books By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Teen suicide. Not an easy subject to think or talk about. This book tells the story of Daelyn. She's 15 and determined to die this time. Yes, you read correctly...she's tried to kill herself before and failed. This time she knows it will work. A victim of bullies, she can't face life anymore. She thinks everyone will be happier without her. One day after school she meets Santana and things start to look a little different, but is it too late?As a mother of a child who was bullied and talkedActual rating 4.5Not a real ''review'' like book bloggers do, but it's something.I'm not really sure what to say about this book. It was hard for me to read at times, but I never really wanted to put it down. Sometimes I had to, just to give myself time to clear my head. Daelyn was a very real character, in my opinion. As was Santana. Both characters were different and had their own problems. They complimented each other well. I personally ADORED Santana and his ''relationship'' with Daelyn.
Julie Anne Peters's By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead is a truly interesting read. Through the book we learn more about Daelyn, a depressed high school girl, and why she wants so badly to commit suicide after several failed attempts. However things may not particularly go the way she planned them, and maybe that's even for the better.I have so many things to talk about, and about none of them are bad, so you might as well call my review a "praise" instead.What I really liked about this
I absolutely loved this book... until the last page, that is.While reading this, I, myself, was going through some difficult things as well. Ms. Peters wrote the subject of suicide very, very well. And at times, I actually wanted such a website to exist. There were parts in this book where I yearned to be sitting next to Daelyn, the suicidal, partially mute main character, hugging her, somehow reassuring her things would be okay. And there were parts in this book where I cried, because I related
This book ticked me off more than any I've read since My Sister's Keeper. Just like Picoult's book, this novel slapped me in the face at the end and negated whatever positive experience I might have gained from it.By the Time You Read This ... could have been a good book. It was fast-moving and compulsively readable. Then I got to the end and literally said out loud, "What the hell?" Without giving too much away, I'll say this: Cliffhangers can be effective literary devices when done well.
This book was hard, but at the same time it was so enthralling. Reading so openly about bullying and a parasuicidal kid made my stomach into a knot, but I couldn't keep my eyes off the book until I was finished with it. It is short, but at the same time, it feels so long. Not because it's boring, but because the topics it talked about felt so... important, maybe? I'm not sure what's the right word for it. I'm not sure there's a right word for it.If you enjoyed "Willow", by Julia Hoban, this is
Another heartbreaking story I have read. This story made me feel how its like to live in a world of people who get bullied most of their lives. I know life is unfair, but we need to stand up and fight. And "do not let the pain ate you", just like what it did to Daelyn Rice. So be PROUD! And smile! ^_^
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