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They Both Die at the End
by Adam Silvera
adventurous
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Continue reading for an incohesive dump of my thoughts on <i>They Both Die at the End</i>...
No way this dude died in the most preventable way with only two hours left in the day like wtfff
The end of this book just made me so mad. You literally had two hours left in the day so why wouldn’t you just stay in bed?? Why did you have to randomly get up at 10 pm to make a cup of tea on a stove that you knew was broken?? I feel like it doesn't make sense that Mateo, whose been cautious this entire book, would do that. He literally died in the place that he stayed in for so much of his life in order to keep himself safe which is very ironic and sad but also frustrating.
I mean I get that the message of the book is that it’s better to take risks and fully experience life than to play it safe and protect yourself but he spent the entire day doing that already so why couldn’t he have just chilled in bed for the last two hours and fallen asleep? Ugh.
I feel the same way about Rufus's death too. Maybe he stopped trying to be so careful about not dying because Mateo had just died, but seriously you have one hour left until the day is over and you die because you didn't look both ways before crossing the street?? I guess I thought they were going to die in a much more epic or tragic way than by doing things that were completely stupid and preventable.
I don’t know the whole Death-Cast thing seems to me like it’s the cause of a lot of people’s deaths. For a lot of deaths that they described in the book, those people wouldn’t be in those situations in the first place if they hadn’t gotten the call. I also honestly don’t understand how you die on the day they call you no matter what choices you make. I guess you have to read the book in the frame of mind that death is fated but I could never wrap my head around that. It just didn’t make sense to me that even if you stay home all day not doing anything you’ll somehow die anyway.
To be honest I think I would rather this book be dystopian because it totally had those vibes. I knew it would be a contemporary going in but once I actually started reading about how Death Cast works and how it’s so ingrained in pretty much every part of society I wished the book was a different genre. I think I was way more interested in the actual concept of Death Cast than the story of Mateo and Rufus’s last day. I didn’t find that they had much romantic chemistry with each other and of course, it was insta-love considering they met each other on their last day alive.
I like the overall message of the book and it did make me tear up a few times but overall I think I wanted the book to be something it wasn’t which is totally my problem and not the book’s fault. Also, because of how both of the characters died, the ending made me more frustrated than sad and heartbroken like it seemed to make everyone else.
The end of this book just made me so mad. You literally had two hours left in the day so why wouldn’t you just stay in bed?? Why did you have to randomly get up at 10 pm to make a cup of tea on a stove that you knew was broken?? I feel like it doesn't make sense that Mateo, whose been cautious this entire book, would do that. He literally died in the place that he stayed in for so much of his life in order to keep himself safe which is very ironic and sad but also frustrating.
I mean I get that the message of the book is that it’s better to take risks and fully experience life than to play it safe and protect yourself but he spent the entire day doing that already so why couldn’t he have just chilled in bed for the last two hours and fallen asleep? Ugh.
I feel the same way about Rufus's death too. Maybe he stopped trying to be so careful about not dying because Mateo had just died, but seriously you have one hour left until the day is over and you die because you didn't look both ways before crossing the street?? I guess I thought they were going to die in a much more epic or tragic way than by doing things that were completely stupid and preventable.
I don’t know the whole Death-Cast thing seems to me like it’s the cause of a lot of people’s deaths. For a lot of deaths that they described in the book, those people wouldn’t be in those situations in the first place if they hadn’t gotten the call. I also honestly don’t understand how you die on the day they call you no matter what choices you make. I guess you have to read the book in the frame of mind that death is fated but I could never wrap my head around that. It just didn’t make sense to me that even if you stay home all day not doing anything you’ll somehow die anyway.
To be honest I think I would rather this book be dystopian because it totally had those vibes. I knew it would be a contemporary going in but once I actually started reading about how Death Cast works and how it’s so ingrained in pretty much every part of society I wished the book was a different genre. I think I was way more interested in the actual concept of Death Cast than the story of Mateo and Rufus’s last day. I didn’t find that they had much romantic chemistry with each other and of course, it was insta-love considering they met each other on their last day alive.
I like the overall message of the book and it did make me tear up a few times but overall I think I wanted the book to be something it wasn’t which is totally my problem and not the book’s fault. Also, because of how both of the characters died, the ending made me more frustrated than sad and heartbroken like it seemed to make everyone else.