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Rating: ★★★★★ 5/5   Title: Die for Me Author: Amy Plum Series: Revenants #1 Followed By: Until I Die Published: May 10th, 2011 Pages: 341 pages Genre: Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, YA Review: This book is honestly written very, very nicely. The overall story is quite simple about a human girl’s paranormal romance with a revenant or undead guy. But, the way the story is described and the flow of the story is so well done this book deserves 5 stars. I felt the strongest emotions I have ever felt while reading a book, especially a book based on a girl who isn’t a superhero and who isn’t perfect. Instead, she's just like you and me. She goes to high school, she goes on dates, she reads, she parties, she does everything normal people do. The only paranormal part is the undead guy and his “family” of other undead guys, as well as the bad undead guys who fight the good undead guys (ha, too many ‘undead guys’ in this sentence).  The emotions I felt weren’t ...

*WARNING THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS* Review: Before I Fall is a hidden gem. It leads you through a series of thoughts and emotions. It gets you thinking about life lessons and about what’s most important in life. It’s a captivating, inspiring, and suspenseful novel that you won’t be able to put down.  In the beginning, Sam and her friends were all very typical high school popular girls who made fun of less popular people and always thought of themselves as better than everyone else. They drink and ditch class and smoke, it just makes me cringe and frustrated at the way they act. I myself was never one of those popular girls in high school, I was always shy and always did the right things and always followed the rules. The end of chapter one asks whether what Sam did was really worse than what I do. My original answer is yes, definitely, she acts a lot worse than I do and dying is what she deserves, maybe she can learn a lesson from her actions. But, by the end, Sam's c...