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Cumberland (1142 KP) rated They Both Die At The End in Books

Apr 22, 2019  
They Both Die At The End
They Both Die At The End
Adam Silvera | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
9
9.0 (22 Ratings)
Book Rating
Death- Cast is a company that calls and informs everyone when it is there last day. Mateo and Rufus both received the call on the same night. They then find themselves connect through an app called last friend.
This book was a fun journey. The two main characters were completely different, and they helped each other grow so much throughout the story.
It was also interesting to see how all the characters and events were connected. Some events that at first appeared small ended up having a larger effect on the overall story.
This book despite its name is truly more about living than dieing. The two MC needed to find the right person to spend what little time they had left with, and they ended up living a lot in one final night because of each other.
  
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Jessica - Where the Book Ends (15 KP) rated They Both Die At The End in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
They Both Die At The End
They Both Die At The End
Adam Silvera | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
10
9.0 (22 Ratings)
Book Rating
Stop and imagine for just one minute what it would be like if you received a phone call telling you that you were going to die within the next 24 hours. How would you live your last 24 hours? Would you have a funeral with your family and friends so that you have a chance to say goodbye, or would you try and make a new friend going through the same thing you were so that you don’t have to be alone on your last day on this planet? This is exactly what happens to both Rufus and Mateo.
Rufus is outgoing and not afraid to stand up for himself. He’s had a pretty crappy few years but he’s managed to make friends with the other kids in his foster home. They have become his family. He gets the call that everyone dreads informing him that he’s going to die today. He decides to download the Last Friend app so that he can get paired up with someone to spend his last 24 hours with.
Mateo is a quiet and somewhat sheltered teenager who has been living on his own since his dad is currently in a coma. He gets the call that he is going to die today and he is instantly terrified to leave his apartment. He quickly decides that he doesn’t want to die alone, so he downloads the Last Friend App in hopes that he will come out of his shell on his last day.
Mateo and Rufus meet through the Last Friend App and have an amazingly memorable final 24 hours together. The bring about change in each other that they never thought was possible.
These characters are so easy to relate to and its so hard not to love them. I couldn’t help but laugh with them and cheer for them, and though I did everything in my power not to cry with them I couldn’t stop myself from crying crocodile tears over their trials and tribulations. This story is about growing, changing as a person and allowing yourself to love and be loved in the wake of great adversity.
They Both Die at the End is the first book I’ve read by Adam Silvera, and I can’t wait to read more. Silvera has a way with words that can suck the air from your lungs, bring you to your knees and in the next sentence completely revive you. After turning the final page of this book and wiping the tears from my eyes I closed the book with a new found appreciation for the life I have and the awareness that it can all be taken away in a moment.
  
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Micky Barnard (542 KP) rated They Both Die At The End in Books

Dec 6, 2018  
They Both Die At The End
They Both Die At The End
Adam Silvera | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
8
9.0 (22 Ratings)
Book Rating
Uplifting and sad
This was more uplifting than I expected and an easy story to slip into despite the dystopian slant of the contemporary setting. Both Matteo and Rufus were endearing characters in different ways with friends and family you could love on. The book takes place over a very short timeline and it takes some talent to make connections work in this context but the dystopia facilitated some of this.

I didn’t expect the culmination (outside of the obvious) to happen in the way that it did. It took me by surprise and half cheated my hopes and desires for the story. However, I felt a lot and sniffed to the end.

Great narration, I particularly liked the use of a third narrator to add in any random characters POV of which this book has rather a few. This third narrator contextualised this aspect.