Hello and happy Saturday. Either earlier this week or late last week I finished reading They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera, and even though it did not destroy me as much as More Happy Than Not did, it managed to break my heart a little.

I know I came super late to the party with this book because it’s been out for like six or seven years now, but you know me. I don’t think I’ll ever be into stuff while it’s trending. I was able to consume different reviews right when this novel was released, so I know that our two main characters indeed die at the end. This is clearly not a spoiler, since it’s the title of the book, but you know, some of us are hopeful, and while reading that I was event when I knew there was no hope whatsoever.

Our two main characters are Mateo and Rufus, and they both get a call from this company early in the morning telling them that they will die sometime that day. The company is called DeathCast and it’s been around for a few years now. It’s purpose is to call people on their End Day and announce them that they’ll experience an untimely death. I assume this means that people who die from natural causes don’t get the call, but that’s not explained and that’s also not the case for our main characters since they are eighteen and seventeen years old.

We read from their POVs, and we also get chapters from minor characters we meet along the way while Mateo and Rufus spend their last day alive. They spend it together because they meet through an app called Last Friends (or Last Friend, I’m not sure, but it’s not like it drastically changes things,) and it’s beautiful to see them experience life for the last time and reflect on what they did or didn’t do. They even fall in love, although this is not a romance novel and you shouldn’t get into it thinking it is. This is a novel about life and death, and love happens to be a part of them.

I’ve already added the prequel to this novel to my wishlist and, of course, I’ll continue to read Adam Silvera’s books because I think he is an amazing author.