They Both Die at the End 

By Adam Silvera

Blurb: 
n September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today.

Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day.

Review: 
I started this book as an audio book and ended it by actually reading it. This book is quite unique and I'm still quite unsure whether to rate it 3 stars or 4 stars, maybe I should settle with 3.5 stars.

This book follows 2 young boys, one 17 and one 18. There lives seem quite different but then also quite similar, they are called Rufus and Mateo. One of them watched their family die on their death day in the river and his parents helped him escape so he would live. Basically this book is about living each day to the fullest. In this book you get a phone call on your last day saying that you are going to die, you get no details about how it will happen and what time it will happen, so it's quite a scary experience we discover.

These two characters meet on the last friends app for different reasons, one of them wants to try new experiences rather than sitting in his room, where as the other has just been dripped into the police and is on the run.

We follow their friendship and adventures throughout the book and we see how they become actual friends which is really unique and cute. I like the aspect and thought that has gone into this book, it just seems to go on a long time for me and not enough action. Like generally, it is a good read I just don't think it's my sort of book.

Further into this book friends of these people meet each other and they become one happy family for one last time but then karma comes to fight and they are separated from their true friends once again but then the death happens. This is quite an upsetting scene, they are trying to help each other enjoy and do something nice for one another and then they get separated by death. Then when Rufus goes its just another heart wrenching moment, I actually felt like I was going to choke on tears reading it, but then at the same time I did expect him to die in that way because he was so careless as we discover throughout the book.

This book overall was a unique read, it was good. At times it was slow and it was lacking the action for me. The ending made me cry but if you don't cry at this ending then you truly don't have a heart. At the end of the book we also meet a few more characters but they act like a side line but we discover the main two characters in the side story and we can see their friendship developing from the outside which makes it a really nice effect.

I don't know if I could recommend this book to someone, I don't even know what you'd really want to find in this book apart from that you need to stop thinking of the past and live in the moment. I suppose this book will allow people to see how good they actually have their lives and maybe it will help them appreciate what they actually have.

Favourite Characters: Mateo

Read: 16/12/19 - 20/12/19

3.5 stars out of 5

Written by Sammie