Before I Die

Author:　Jenny Downham

Rate: ★★★★★

Genre:  Life

Summary:

Tessa who has cancer since she was young, knows that she cannot live for so long any more, so she decided to make a list of things to do before she dies. Her family, friend, and her boyfriend help her to do all these lists that she made. She’s scare of her death and hoped that if she can live like normal teenagers like study a lot, go to school, go to university, make a lot of friends…  People around her knows that she cannot live for so long, they treat her like a fragile thing and care about her so much, but she behave like she has nothing wrong.

This book actually makes you cry, makes you to think what is like to be alive and how teenage girl feels fighting to her own destination. The relationships between her family, friend and boyfriend are very sensitive and those feelings are the feeling which we don’t normally feel in everyday life, so you would know how difficult to have or fight to an illness. You will know how important your family, friends, the people around are, and how lucky you to be alive after you read this book.