Before I Die

Tessa is a 16 year old girl who is dying. She has cancer. Cancer....it is amazing how one word can say so much. This book speaks volumes. The emotional slap that you receive on every page is sometimes too much to bear and you have to set the book down and walk away for a while. There is the anger from Tessa, the desperation from her father, the denial from her brother, the love from Adam, and the almost mean spirited fragility from her friend Zoey. You connect with each of these emotions and at times you feel drained. Make sure that you have plenty of Kleenex on hand before beginning, but this book is definitely worth the time. It will make you re-evaluate life and maybe, just maybe, not take it for granted quite as much.

3.5 ⭐️ I’ve watched the film Now is Good, which I believe is based on this book, so I did notice a few familiar parts. Tessa has leukaemia. She has very little time left to live, and she is determined to do a few things before her time comes. The main one being sex. Shortly followed by drugs, breaki......more

This review can be found at ReadingAfterMidnight.com I don't really know what to say about this book. I didn't like it that much, but I didn't hate it either.. The bad: For the most part of the story I didn't really care about Tessa, about her illness and her strange wishes (as I never got attached......more

I feel like a jerk for not giving this story more stars. I mean, it's a book about a sixteen year old girl trying to live life to the fullest before dying of cancer. I keep thinking only a heartless baby-eating monster would give this book less then four stars. Well, I suppose I am that monster, min......more

I started this book wondering, "Why am I reading this?" and I ended it wondering, "Why did I read this?" But my two reasons for thinking these things were very different. In the beginning, I felt like this book would be a repetition of "Skinny," a massive disappointment in which the author was enamo......more