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Peters, Julie Anne

By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

200 pp. | Hyperion | January, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4231-1618-9 $16.99
(2) YA Determined to make this suicide attempt successful, Daelyn, the novel's emotionally damaged, unreliable narrator, signs on to a website that prepares people for their "Date of Determination." While waiting for clearance to off herself, Daelyn grudgingly describes her life (she wears a neck brace and is mute) in a journal. Peters's spare, terse writing effectively echoes her protagonist's state of mind. Resources are appended. Websites.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2010

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