Book Review: They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Title: They Both Die at the End
Author: Adam Silvera
Kindle Edition
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐


Summary:

Rufus and Mateo both know it is their last day to be alive. They are complete strangers. They are both lonely on their last day for very different reasons. Is it fate that they come together on their last day through an app? They are too young to die, yet it is their day. They make the best out of the day doing everything they can before they die.

My thoughts:

Wow! What?!?! I don't know!! What would I do? There has to be a happy ending! Do they really both die in the end as the title suggests?!?!?!

These are all the things that were zinging through my mind as I read this book. It was a very moving story about two strangers who connect with the world and each other in the most unexpected of ways.

The writing style was good and the conversational texts and parts were very realistic to the way I would assume teenagers would talk. An example of this is the way Rufus uses the word "mad" to describe all of his going ons. Its like the valley girl 'like' that is so excessive it is annoying, yet endearing and accurate.

The changes in POV was also a great way to tell this story. You can infer the connections that are happening, but there isn't a way to know 100% that those connections are what you think they are.

It is hard for me to identify what I didn't like about this book. The concept is basic, yet profound. I wish there had been a character that wasn't completely broken, but that is a stretch. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to have their soul ripped out and repaired. You will cry, you will fall in love, you will think. This book becomes a very introspective book. Would it be better to know you are going to die that day so you can live without regrets, or would you rather not know and hope you die without any regrets? It is a self fulfilling prophecy? I don't know the answers to these questions, I wish I did.