“Stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”

I will be totally honest when I say I don’t know if I will be able to write this review without crying, this book makes me an emotional mess in the best kind of way!

To try and postpone the tears for as long as possible, let’s start with the plot of this story.

On September 5th, 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 for 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.

This was such a creative story, the background and plot was like something out of a dystopian book, I mean knowing that this is the day you will die and being given the opportunity to not only say goodbye to the ones you love, but to have the opportunity to do something you have always wanted to do before you die. It’s almost a gift and a curse at the same time.

As the first book I’ve read from Adam Silvera I didn’t know what to expect in regards to his writing style, but I as soon as I finished the first chapter I knew I loved it.

The characters were all so amazing, I loved each one, I adored the diversity of the characters, as well as how we were introduced to each one. Adam has a gift for creating characters, developing those characters, and not having them seem out of place in the story.

Mateo was a boy after my own heart, he was dorky, shy and enjoyed listening to the sounds of space. He was so pure all I wanted to do was wrap him into a blanket burrito and tell him everything would be okay, even when the title of the book tells me otherwise!
I adored his character development, and felt it happened so naturally during the story.

Rufus is an outgoing, troubled, and adventurous kid, and if I am being honest, I loved him just as much as I loved Mateo. He helped Mateo get out of his shell and if I was heading into my last day I would want someone like Rufus by my side.

The one thing I didn’t like about this story was, how all I wanted was for these boys to end up together and live happily ever after, and as the story went on I thought I was going to get it, but at the end Adam was true to his word and to the title of the book, and it hurt so bad.

While reading my notes to write this review I noticed I used the crying emoji more than once and I can totally understand where past me was going with those feelings, I also noticed that my notes just stop as I get closer to the end of the book because my emotions were too much to write.
Seriously everyone should read this book!

Rating - 5/5 Stars - Amazing! I loved it!

This book was one of my first 5 star reads of 2020 and I’m so glad I decided this was the year I read it, I adored everything about this book, yes even the moment I was crying so hard I had trouble breathing and had to pace my lounge room just to stop crying, that was my favourite part!
This book was just what I needed at the time and will be a book that never leaves my shelves.

I will treasure this book and force it upon others just to see them feel the same pain I did... you know, like friends do!

Now if you would please excuse me I’m going to go listen to the sound of Pluto and relax.

Happy reading everyone!
Jess xoxo