# By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

**Author(s):** Julie Anne Peters
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/by-the-time-you-read-this-ill-be-dead/verdict.json
**Genres:** middle-grade
**Publisher:** Hyperion
**Published:** Tue Jan 05 2010 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781423116189
**ISBN-10:** 1423116186
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/by-the-time-you-read-this-ill-be-dead

## Description

After a lifetime of being bullied, Daelyn is broken beyond repair. She has tried to kill herself before, and is determined to get it right this time. Though her parents think they can protect her, she finds a Web site for “completers” that seems made just for her. She blogs on its forums, purging her harrowing history. At her private Catholic school, the only person who interacts with her is a boy named Santana. No matter how poorly she treats him, he just won’t leave her alone. And it’s too late for Daelyn to be letting people into her life . . . isn’t it? In this harrowing, compelling novel, Julie Anne Peters shines a light on what might make a teenager want to kill herself, as well as how she might start to bring herself back from the edge. A discussion guide and resource list prepared by “bullycide” expert C. J. Bott are included in the back matter.

## SageChimp reader verdict

By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 3.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
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### ★★★ (Untitled) — Angelica Ruelas