“I regret to inform you that sometime in the next 24 hours you’ll be meeting an untimely death. And while there isn’t anything we can do to suspend that, you still have a chance to live.”

Between midnight and 3 am, Death-Cast calls those who will die within the next 24 hours. To help them live their last day to the fullest, an app called Last Friend was created to help connect they dying with those around them. Because of this app, Rufus and Mateo connect at 3 am with the hopes of squeezing in all the life they had yet to live.

Before we get too much farther, I didn’t cry. I wanted a book that would smash my heart to smithereens, but maybe the hype behind the book got in the way for me? Definitely an amazing read and well-deserving of 5 stars. I loved seeing Rufus and Mateo grow into who they wanted to be. It makes me wonder what I’ll look back on my own life one day and think, especially if that day isn’t as far away as I’d like. Would future me be proud of how I lived today, or would I wish I did more and greater things?

Above all, this book was a heart-wrenching and beautiful reminder to, in the words of the Death-Cast callers, “live this day to the fullest.”