They Both Die at the End

This book is recommended for children starting at age 12. I was highly disappointed in this book with the amount of filthy language in it. My daughter didn’t make it past the second chapter without seeing the F word at least 5 different times along with other foul language. I can’t believe this is recommended for children!

Yet another emotional rollercoaster by Adam Silvera. Every one of his books is full of emotional turmoil but written in the most beautiful of ways. I know his books are going to hurt, hell the title gives it all away here, but I am still eager to read the story. It is a nod to his writing talent that he makes me okay with being an emotional wreck as I read.This book focused on the idea of what would you do if you knew you were going to die. In this world there is a program called Death Cast that calls up people between midnight and 3 and lets them know that they are going to die that day. Rufus and Mateo both receive the call and need someone to spend their last day with. Neither of them is without people in their lives but because of outside forces they can't spend their Last Day with those people. They use the Last Friend app and find one another. Throughout their last hours they find a connection in each other and find a way to release their true selves.I adored both Mateo and Rufus. They were these two teens who were dealt a bad hand. Fate had it out for them. Both are trying to find a way to find a reason to live. Mateo lost his mother when she gave birth to him and his dad is in a coma. Rufus survived the accident that killed his family. Both of them are reeling from horrible events and both have lost themselves inside their own fear and tragedy.In one day they find each other and realize that they are not doomed people. Yes, they are going to die but their spirits and souls don't have to die. Mateo learns how to live without fear and Rufus finds the side of himself that he thought he lost when he lost his family. Both boys find a deeper connection then just friendships in each other.I loved the way life was examined in this novel. The way the idea of living for yourself and finding a way to make life count was talked about. It was a beautiful way of showing that life is never over if you can find the right ways to live it. Rufus and Mateo had only one day but they made it mean something and found love in the process.I also loved the way small other stories were told throughout the novel. These were people that had some contact with Mateo or Rufus. Some was good interactions and some weren't but in the end it showed how connected everyone is. You don't realize the impact you have on people you barely interact with on a daily basis. A simple smile or tap on the shoulder could change things. Or it may not change anything but what matters is that no one lives in a vacuum. All lives are connected for better or for worse.I desperately wanted this to end in a way that made me more happy than sad, in the end it gave me hope. Hope that life is always worth living no matter what. Hope shown through these two boys who found a way to make a day matter like a lifetime. Adam Silvera really does know how to write a poignant and meaningful tale.

The rating and recommended age range for this book is highly miscalculated. Extremely unsettling sexual and vulgar content targeted for kids as young as 12. This needs to be in a 18+ category and NOT targeted for youth reading!

HORRIBLE content for a middle schooler! Do NOT let your middle schooler read this book!! All the wrong messages

If I had the option to give minus stars I would. This book is poorly written. The concept was what inspired me to order it. Someone should address the subject, if you knew you would die tomorrow.....what would you do? Like I said, interesting concept. However, this book has one mission that cancels out any other. To make young people think foul language and irresponsible lifestyles are normal. This should not be a book for middle school children. They have enough issues at that age without filling their heads with this garbage.If you want to read it out of curiosity save your money and borrow from the library.Worst book I have picked up in ages. All the glowing reviews are misleading. Always read the bad reviews first. They tend to be the most honest.

Adam Silvera writing about death. (Dude really knows how to paint a picture of tragedy. Pg- 100.) The words apply to Adam too.My thing.17 Points of View.Definitely my thing.Overall, this book was a great read.My favorite lines.* Stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.* I think we made his day by not pretending he's invisible.* Sometimes living is hard and complicated because of fear.* A new memory to laugh over is just as good as reflecting on an old one.* I wasted time and missed fun because I cared about the wrong things.* Affection from millions and intimacy from that one special person are completely different beast.* Entire lives aren't lessons, but there are lessons in lives.* You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships.* It's better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.

It has been a long time since a book has made me ugly cry. Like truly uncontrollable sobs. This book made me ugly cry twice and sniffle up at least four additional times. If you're the type to run from anything that makes you feel, I promise you, you won't want to miss this book.In a world where Death-Cast can call you to inform you that sometime in the next twenty-four hours, you'll die -- Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio get the call. These two teenagers find each other via a Last Friend App, where 'deckers' (the dying) can find a friend for their end day. If you had one day to live, what would you do? Mateo and Rufus go on one last big adventure discovering what it means to live, love, and leave no regrets.This was a haunting, emotionally charged, ride. A page-turning easy read about the power of friendship. I couldn't put it down. Must read.

This book broke me, I just want to make that very clear before I get into the rest of this review. I don't know why I thought reading a book where the main characters die would be easier because their death is promised in title, it definitely isn't.Mateo lives a quiet life, too afraid of stepping out of his comfort zone to have done much living when he gets the call saying he's going to die. With his father in a coma and his best friend being a single mum to his goddaughter, Mateo feels alone and turns to Last Friend in the hope of finding someone to help him live his life in twenty-four hours.Rufus on the other hand lives the opposite of a quiet life, we meet him in the middle of beating up his ex girlfriend's current boyfriend and then he gets the call. It isn't the way Rufus saw things going, he'd already lost his parents and older sister to the Death-Cast, now it was his turn. As events unfold Rufus finds himself on the run from the police and separated from his friends, so Rufus also finds himself on Last Friend."No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end."I was really intrigued by the idea of Death-Cast, is life better when you know that you'll get a call on your End Day? Does it eliminate fear and encourage you to make the most of life? For Mateo it didn't, he spent his days indoors playing video games and following the last moments of others who got the call. Rufus says that it doesn't matter and that he and Mateo just need to accept what is happening and live."...I think you should post your life in colour."Rufus and Mateo share their final hours together through Rufus' Instagram (so Gen Z, so relatable), sharing new experiences, getting to know each other and living as full a life as you possibly can in a day. For such an upsetting book there was some really touching moments that I don't want to ruin for any potential readers, but Mateo and his lego house made me very warm and fuzzy."Twelve hours ago I received the phone call telling me I'm going to die today, and I'm more alive now than I was then."Throughout the book there are stories from other characters, one of those characters is Deidre Clayton, who goes through a tough time dealing with the whole premise of the Death-Cast and has suicidal thoughts because of it. Honestly one of my first thoughts about the subject when I read about it was how could anyone deal with the knowledge that one day their phone will ring and there's nothing you can do to change things? In life you like to think that death can be avoided, if you get in an accident that you could be helped, you can get treatment for illness and get better. The call is a unavoidable death sentence, and that's scary."You can't go around telling people you wanna be a tree and expect them to take you seriously."Something I really liked about the book is the different conversations and opinions about the afterlife. For someone who is afraid of death, yes that's me -and I'm reading a book about so much death, it was really comforting for me to think about what could happen after death, some things I've never thought about. Death is so uncertain and there's no way to ever know what really happens, so we can choose to believe whatever we want if it helps us to navigate the world. It does help, or at least it does for me."I will make it so easy for you to find me. Neon signs. Marching bands."Mateo and Rufus really were the most perfect characters to lead me through this story. Of course it's a curse that they didn't meet sooner but the time they did have together was made so special by their willingness to go all out and just be themselves. The two of them lived out what would have been months of a new friendship, in a single day, and it was beautiful.I could go on and on about this book, there's characters I haven't covered who are amazing but I want to leave something for anyone reading this who is going to pick up the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes YA/LGBTQ+ reads, obviously there is some sensitive topics in this book so please read at your own discretion and do so in the comfort of your own home with a partner or pet or stuffed animal nearby for all the cuddles -you're going to need a lot.

I'm unsure how so many people were upset or surprised by the ending of this book when it is literally the title. I found the concept interesting but the lack of detail regarding how death cast works disappointing and disengaging. The slang used by Rufus feels forced but is not a dealbreaker. My biggest complaint would be that it took a long time for the story to built enough momentum to get past the characters backstories. I probably wouldn't recommend this to anyone over the age of 18 as it feels like it was written for a younger audience. the book has some high points, nice character development towards the end and easy to read. definitely not the most engaging book I've read but certainly not the worst

What would you do if you knew you would die within the next 24 hours?I'll tell you what I wouldn't do: read this book. I don't see myself as someone who moans about books, and if you loved this book - which many did - I'm sorry for what I'm about to write; this is just my opinion.They all die in the end, in a nutshell, is set in a world where a service informs everyone of the day they will die. The story is of Mateo and Rufus and how they become best friends through an app - which was created to match people who will die on the same day - and spend their last day together.I personally found the friendship between Mateo and Rufus was awkward and both characters were presented as unlikeable. I wanted to find a connection with them but I just couldn't. I wanted to be upset by their death at the end of the book, but I wasn't. The book should of been a tear jerker, but was inconsistent, and felt rushed and left me feeling very underwhelmed.The book also has chapters that add the story of other characters and 90% of these added nothing to the book and felt like they were just there as filler chapter.I felt like the book was a chore to read, and has put me off reading anything else by same authorIF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS STOP READING HEREMy biggest bug bare is the instant love connection between the characters; which in my opinion came out the blue and felt so unrealistic as they had met mere hours before and they are 'head over heels'. The love connection seemed unnecessary and I would of been a lot happier if they were just friends.This book wasnt for me at all - although I'm sure you guessed that by now. There were parts about this book that were good but the cons outweighed the pros by far to much.🌟 🌟

I had heard that They Both Die At the End was a bit weird and I was not disappointed. It's a sort of a Hunger Games / Black Mirror / video game caper in which a phone call from Death-Cast informing Mateo and Rufus that they are both "deckers" and have 24 hours to live. They form an unlikely friendship and try to fulfill their dreams able to undertake dangerous activities without fear. Ridiculous as this all sounds, it works quite well and draws the reader into a strange adolescent world that is not without some dark comedic aspects and reminded me of the style of Scott Pilgrim v The World. This will not be for everyone but there were some genuinely laugh out loud moments for me at least and it is refreshing to read something as original and entertaining as this. I can see this being adapted for film and doing really well at the box office.

Truly, this is one of the most beautiful novels I have ever read. It is heart-wrenching, and although the reader is aware that they "both die at the end", it is impossible not to fall totally in love with Mateo and Rufus. The complexity of the plot, the world that Silvera has crafted, and the depths into the human psyche that he explores turn this book into a portal into the Last Day. Hope, pain, tragedy, love, karaoke, this story has it all and more besides.I began this book at 7pm, and finished it by 10pm. I sobbed from approximately 50 pages in until the end and now my partner is worried about me. I immediately bought Silvera's other book, and have been waiting for a few free hours stretch as I'm sure I will need to read it in one sitting. I recommend this book wholeheartedly to anyone who needs a good cry, though not to anyone who is dealing with grief at the death of a loved one. The language isn't hard to parse, but this book is not easy to read.