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The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
5.0

“It sounds like you're saying we can choose to live. Or we can choose to survive.”

If you were told when you were going to die, the exact date, would you believe it? Would you love your life differently?

The Immortalists is the tale of four siblings who are given the dates of their deaths and how they chose to live their lives afterwards.
Would you, like youngest brother Simon, follow a life of hedonistic pleasures? Or would you be more careful and fearful like oldest sister Varya.

I preferred the stories of the younger two siblings over the older two. That could be as their lives were more bold and daring, and therefore interesting. It did leave me wondering though: Did the fact that the kids knew when they were going to die influence how they lived their lives or did they influence their deaths based on how they lived their lives?