By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters- to page 12

I have started by second book. It is about a girl named Daelyn, who is dumb (in the sense that she can't talk). She is under 24-hour suicide watch. She wants to die. As soon as possible. She narrates the story somewhat sarcastically, subtly I think. She finds a website called Through-the-Light.com, where people go for suicide. After she clicks yes on the terms and agreements and all the questions, the site asks her to press her finger to the screen. Please wait., it says. Daelyn swore she felt heat go touch her finger. It asks her another question to which she answers yes and the text says "Thank you Daelyn Rice". She never gave the website her name. The computer had taken some sort of fingerprint maybe. It gave her an ID, which was some numbers and some letters. But the funny thing was, the numbers were her birthday. The site tells her that her "Date of Determination" (DOD) will be in 23 days. (The book is set up so that the chapters are days, chapter one is 23 days, chapter two [this one] is 22 days...etc). She wants the date to be sooner, but the date has to be at least 23 days away.

She sits everyday, reading on a bench waiting for one of her parents to pick her up. Lately this boy has been coming up to her and sitting next to her everyday. As she is reading, he starts to dance in front of her, which both Daelyn and I think is really lame. She ignores him and her dad pulls up. They go home for the night.

I am anxious to know why Daelyn is this way. I also want to know what is going on with the boy. The picture on the cover of the book is intriguing me also, the rose petals; they may be symbolic but I'm not sure. She also appears to be naked, and possibly in a bathtub. Some people kill them selves in bathtubs, they bleed themselves until the blood loss is so significant, they can no longer live. This may be her suicide of choice.