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The date is September 5, 2017 and Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio are both going to die. Thanks to an app called Last Friend, they find each other and commit to spend their day in the best way possible-whatever that means. THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END should be an incredibly sad book about dying, but instead it's a manual on how to live. Author Adam Silvera shows how we're all part of a single tapestry, and intersections with others can have a significance you might never understand. Mateo and Rufus are both beautiful souls, and though they are each flawed, their imperfections help strengthen the other. The day that they spend together might seem unremarkable to someone who doesn't know them; fortunately, we get to know them both really well through some great character development. In the midst of Mateo and Rufus's story are the stories of many others. We just catch glimpses of some of them, and others receive a bit longer look. It's understandable that none of them are as well put together as the two protagonists, but there are instances where the glimpses seem a bit too contrived and they distract rather than sharpen the focus on the two I really wanted to see. This book would be a wonderful addition to a high school classroom. The conversations and debates I imagine it generating among teens would be awesome. Adam Silvera has created a fascinating, modern coming-of-age story, and I look forward to sharing it with others so that I can talk about it. My thanks to the publisher and YA Books Central for a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.
In this imagined future world, you not only know when you're going to die... you have 24 hour notice. Death-cast has called both Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio and despite their differences they unite as "Last Friends" for a day of goodbyes, adventure, and cosmic reveals. An interesting premise that, for this reader at least, never really takes off. Pondering one's mortality is never cheery; this book does little to leaven the anxiety.
The storie is great I cry at the end
I highly recommend this book because it gives multiple peoples point of views plus it keeps you on edge on what’s gonna happen. 10/10!
I loved and hated this book. In an alternate present day, people receive a call just after midnight letting them know it is their "end day." Teenage boys Mateo and Rufus, two strangers, each receive the call within hours of one another. Both boys are parent-less (Mateo's mother dead, his father in a coma; Rufus's entire family killed in a tragic car accident). Seeking solace in a friend, they find one another on the Last Friend App. The next 24 hours are filled with adventure, friendship, love, loss, and impending doom. As a reader you are continually reminded that no one has ever eluded Death-Cast's prediction for death. The boys will die but we don't know when or how. As the clock ticks down, the reader can't help hoping for a happy ending, a miracle that will save them both. But the title of this book is The Both Die At The End. There are no spoilers, the ending is announced before you open the book. But it's what happens between the pages that matters most.
How would you live your life differently if you knew the day you were going to die? Would you want to know that it's your last day or would you prefer to stay in the dark? We all have a date out there in the future that will be our last and countless people, songs, movies, and books exhort us to live each day as if this day is it. And we should, because we truly never know. In Adam Silvera's YA novel, They Both Die at the End, the world has the technology to warn people that it is their last day, a scary but also freeing prospect, one that allows the dying to craft the sort of final day they want. Just after midnight, eighteen year old Mateo gets his phone call from Death-Cast informing him that he's going to die today. Mateo lives with his father, his mother having died when he was born. But his father isn't around to help the introverted and fearful Mateo face his end because his father is in the hospital in a coma. So he'll have to be brave enough on his own. Seventeen year old, foster child Rufus also gets his phone call from Death-Cast. He's in the middle of beating his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend to a pulp when the call comes in so it's a surprise that he gets the call rather than the bleeding and battered boyfriend. He intends to celebrate the imminent end of his life with his close friends, fellow fosters called the Plutos, until circumstances send him fleeing the foster home away from his friends. It is at this point that Mateo and Rufus each turn to an app called Last Friend, where Deckers (those slated to die that day) can reach out to make one last friend and have the experiences they've always wanted. And so these two doomed teenagers spend their day together learning to live. The chapters go back and forth between Mateo and Rufus with occasional chapters from others interjected. Each of these interjected chapters starts with the information that the main focus of the chapter did not get a call from Death-Cast today because s/he is not going to die today. Mateo and Rufus' chapters are sad enough, as they worry about their deaths and how to get through their day as safely as they can until the end inevitably comes, but the other chapters serve to remind the reader, over and over again, that the boys they're so invested in have no future. It's effective as a reminder and also moves the plot along so that it's not simply two boys having adventures, becoming friends, and learning to trust and love in their last hours. It adds to the plot. The story is heartbreaking but it is leavened by the sweet, if fairly sudden and slightly unbelievable, romance and the honest and open way that the boys are living their final day. The reader will be immediately sympathetic to Mateo but will have to grow to feel that way towards Rufus. They are very different characters, both with agonizing back stories, who come to understand their own value to themselves and to each other. Silvera has done a fantastic job of making connections between his cast of characters, weaving each life through the others, showing how we are all connected, all human. It's the butterfly effect in novel form. The mechanism behind Death-Cast isn't explained in the story, but I'm not certain that it needs to be. The only thing that matters is that the boys are going to die and they know it. They are necessarily given a very long final day but that sometimes means that the plot drags in places. The you only live once message is often repeated as the story goes on, especially as Mateo and Rufus remind themselves that the clock is ticking and a little more subtlety in that would perhaps have not been amiss. The concept is a fascinating one and although it didn't leave me as emotional as I'd have expected, Silvera has written an engaging and interesting novel. If you're like me, in the end, rather than this being a tear-jerker, it'll leave your heart feeling bruised. And when you close the book the final time, you will understand the comment made to the boys again and again, "Sorry to lose you" because you'll be sorry to lose these characters too.
What would you do if you knew this was the last day of your life? That's the question Silvera proposes in this contemporary tale with a twist - in some unexplained way, the exact day of everyone's death is known and each person receives a phone call notifying them they have less than 24 hours to live. Two very different teenage boys both get the call one day and, via an app set up for the purpose, meet up to spend their final day of life together. Clever plotting, compelling characters, and a sweet romance drive this easy read with some simplistic themes about living life to the fullest, not letting fear get in the way, opening yourself up to love, and, ultimately, finding your true self.
Another brilliant concept lacking in execution. Sometime in the near future, people are given 24 hours notice (via text, of course) of their imminent deaths. The novel features two teenaged boys, Rufus and Mateo, who use an app "Final Friend" to meet and spend their last day together. Well, it's a short day for them but a l-o-o-n-g day for the reader. There's not one bit of info about how this whole process came to be, what happens if you don't have a cellphone, who's doing the killing...so the great idea becomes a lame plot device. Too bad.
Although I loved the book, my book in this order came with the cover ripped. In the future, I would ensure that items chosen for online orders don't feature any flaws (especially since I was gifting this item to a friend).
The book it's self is a beautiful story however, the book came in “broken” and scratched. Like I said wonderful story with a great plot but the delivery not so good.