How She Died, How I Lived

By Mary Crockett

Book Overview

Girl in Pieces meets The Way I Used to Be in this poignant and thought-provoking novel about a girl who must overcome her survivor's guilt after a fellow classmate is brutally murdered.

I was one of five. The five girls Kyle texted that day. The girls it could have been. Only Jamie--beautiful, saintly Jamie--was kind enough to respond. And it got her killed.

On the eve of Kyle's sentencing a year after Jamie's death, all the other "chosen ones" are coping in various ways. But our tenacious narrator is full of anger, stuck somewhere between the horrifying past and the unknown future as she tries to piece together why she gets to live, while Jamie is dead.

Now she finds herself drawn to Charlie, Jamie's boyfriend--knowing all the while that their relationship will always be haunted by what-ifs and why-nots. Is hope possible in the face of such violence? Is forgiveness? How do you go on living when you know it could have been you instead?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316523828
• ISBN13: 9780316523820
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

Loved

This book hits hard.. it's poetic pain.. Beautiful, ugly and everything in between. I literally cried, it was amazingly written.

Book is good

I loved this book so much. made me cry

"How she died, how I lived"

Okay, so this book was a page Turner. It had all the chance to be a thriller, but it was more of a teenager coping with a high school classmate being murdered. Which just made it more different and interesting. It shows what life is really like, it wasnt creating more.. horror. It was just showing what it feels like. Which I respect personally. I like books that are laid back, drama filled book. Nothing too intense (other than one spot((no spoilers here)). But I enjoyed it. And the ending was... perfect.