Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver My rating: 4 of 5 stars Mean girls meets Groundhog Day - that's what I went into this book expecting. Turned out to be much more complex than that simple comparison.. Meet high school senior Samantha "Sam" Kingston, our protagonist who is forced to relive the same day (12th February) over and over again. Sam is one of the mean girls at her school, this divides an audience into those who were of similar popularity at school and those who weren't and those whom the popular kids tormented. As one of the kids in the in between at school (I wasn't a main target for abuse, but I rarely looked the popular kids in the eye..if you catch my drift). I found it a little hard to be sympathetic to Sam's plight at the beginning, having a 'you reap what you sow' kinda attitude, however this view changed as Sam's did during the course of the book. As she began savouring moments with loved ones and trying to make ...