Samantha Kingston

Samantha "Sam" Kingston is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. At the opening of the novel, Sam is a popular girl enjoying her final year of high school. On the day of the novel's setting, which she is forced to relive seven times after her death, Sam is contemplating losing her virginity to her boyfriend, Rob, and how many roses she will receive on Cupid's Day, a public sign of one's popularity in school. At the opening of the novel, Sam's relationships with many around her, except for her relationship with her best friends, is strained, as she seems to value her "coolness" over everything else. She shuns her old friend Kent because he isn't popular, is constantly annoyed by her younger sister Izzy, and has almost no relationship with her mother. She is somewhat rude, snaps at people who look at her the wrong way...