By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
By Julie Anne Peters
(*minor spoilers*)
Daelyn Rice has had a rough time growing up, and still does. She’s attempted numerous suicide plots due to her history in bullying and being overweight. She believes she’s beyond saving now and is trying to figure out a suicide plot, which will rid her of this world for good, by visiting a website called www.through-the-light.com on a daily basis.
Daelyn tells people of her life, revealing serious bullying problems including rape attempts and fat camp. These problems date back to when she was very young and still remembers almost every detail of the events.
At school, she’s known as a freak mute. She can’t talk (due to one of her botched suicide attempts) and doesn’t have any real friends until Santana and Emily finally acknowledge her.
I liked Santana, didn’t love him. His personality was cute and how he treated Daelyn was comical and comforting at times. I skipped ahead sometimes to see if he was in the next couple of pages because he was one of the things that kept the novel somewhat exciting.
The scenes weren’t that intense in my opinion. The only parts that were exciting were when Daelyn talks with Santana and some scenes where she meets Emily. The issue of suicide was dealt with good I would say. It’s very hard to write about it and it’s heart wrenching to read about it, which attracted me to the book.
The ending was not what I imagined (which was what the title told me), and I was happy about that. Overall I wouldn’t recommend it, although it was an okay read and very short.
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