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They Both Die At The End

Author: Adam Silvera

Page Count: 384

Date started: February 11th 2022

Date Finished: February 12th 2022

I picked this book up in a Waterstones on a ‘booktok made me buy it’ table. I hadn’t seen this book on booktok or ever heard of it before, I originally had a completely different book in my hand but the title caught my attention and when I read the description I knew I had to give it a go.

The book follows Mateo and Rufus, to strangers who both got a call from death-cast telling them that they were going to die within the next 24 hours. They both use an App called ‘Last Friends’ to link with other people dying that day ‘deckers’ or people wanting to help make a deckers last day special. Mateo originally planned to spend the day hiding away in his room meets Rufus through the app. Rufus helps Mateo come out if his shell a little more and Mateo helps Rufus through some trauma from losing his family. I truly thought I wouldn’t enjoy this book and I would have to force myself into finishing it but I loved it! I sympathised with Mateo intending to spend his last day alone in his room and his paranoia through out the first half of the book because that is probably how I’d be if I was told I was going to die. Through the book you get to see both boys grow: Mateo from a paranoid introvert who hasn’t really come to terms with himself and Rufus, a boy traumatised from being the only survivor of a car crash that killed his parents and sister, the boy that assaulted the new boyfriend Of his ex-girlfriend to a boy helping someone learn how to live in a day. Some parts are a little slow, which is too be expected, but the book is addictive and plays with your emotions. It had me crying (especially when Rufus is begging Mateo to wake up after pulling him out of the apartment and at the end when Rufus writes a letter to Mateo dad to tell him what they did that day and to check out his Instagram to see pictures of his sons last day), laughing, shocked and every other emotion. There is some other subplots in this book which I liked (Delilah’s Story, Zoes story, Vins story etc) I found it genuinely hard to put this book down after I started reading and I’m so glad I picked it up that day.

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