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Begge dør til slutt by Adam Silvera

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skyeshark1's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Im so mad they actually die at the end.

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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? No

5.0

Book Review:

I’ve been wanting to read this one for ages. If I’m honest, I’ve been putting it off, because half of the TikTok books that get recommended to me aren’t, in reality, that great. However, I finally found this book in a charity shop, and I must say, I’m so disappointed in myself for not getting round to it quicker.

Everything about this book was so clever. Firstly, the idea of having someone call you when you’re going to die is so unique, because like, isn’t it a bit of a paradox? Like say you were going to die at work, but you find out you’re dying so you don’t go to work, so you don’t die... it’s hard to wrap my head around it, but it’s so good. This book really shows how, no matter what, life just keeps going, and the world keeps on spinning.

The characters themselves are beautiful. Flawed, heavily realistic, and real sweethearts, I loved Mateo and Rufus. Really unique characters, and you get to bond with them so well over the course of the book. All the other characters are the same, really lovable, and very well written - and that’s such a good thing in novels. I also think they’re very comedic, the humour is definitely suited for my generation.

I love how every chapter with a different character is interconnected. We hear about multiple stories, like Peck’s story, and his group, and Delilah and her ex’s story, etc etc. I love how every thing, every character, is there for a reason, like, I’m assuming, Trevor at the ending going to find Delilah, and Rufus meets his end… it’s all so good, so cleverly written, and it’s amazing. I’ve seen it’s a series, so I definitely cannot wait for the next book in the series!

Book Summary:

We follow Mateo and Rufus as they find out they only have less than 24 hours to live. In this reality, people who are dying get calls from Death-Cast, telling them that they only have a certain amount of time to live. They don’t say when, or how, they’re going to die, and just try to encourage people to live their lives to the fullest that day.

Mateo is at home when he finds out. His dad is in hospital, in a coma, so it’s just him by himself. When he gets the alert, he decides to spend his last day living. Rufus, when he gets the call, is beating up his ex’s (Aimee’s) new boyfriend (Peck). He decides it isn’t worth it, and he leaves.

Rufus calls all of his friends to their home and he plans a funeral for himself. Unfortunately, Peck calls the police on him, so his goodbyes are snatched and he is now on the run from the police.

Mateo and Rufus meet on an app called Last Friend, which is designed to help Deckers - the name given to people who are dying and know it - find someone to spend their last day with. They are cautious at first, but then eventually meet up, and they spend the rest of their day doing stuff together.

Mateo says goodbye to his dad and his best friend, Lidia, and her baby, Penny. When her boyfriend died a few months ago, she almost couldn’t go through with it, but Mateo was there for her. Unfortunately, he wasn’t going to tell her, but she found out, and they managed to get a few last moments together. Rufus’s friends end up finding him, and they also get their goodbyes. Mateo and Rufus spend the day doing various activities, which Rufus takes lots of photos of, and they get to know one another.

They quickly find out they have feelings for each other - Rufus knows a little while before Mateo. They bring each other out of their comfort zones, and although it isn’t fair that they don’t get enough time together, they make every moment last. When Peck and his crew travel to find Rufus and finish him off, Mateo punches him, and they are safe. For a bit, anyway. What matters is, if they were given the time, they would grow to love each other, to be in love with each other.

They go to Mateo’s house and they seek solace in his bed. As long as they promise not to leave the bed, their ‘safe place’ they will be okay. When Rufus wakes up to the smell of smoke, and Mateo gone from the bed, he knows what has happened. He finds Mateo burned, and desperately wants the medics to save him, but he’s already dead. Rufus knows that Mateo was only trying to do something nice for the two of them, and that makes him even more angry. Rufus ends up being knocked over by a car, after visiting Mateo's dad in hospital, and that's how he meets his demise.

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I absolutely loved the humor in this book (esp the dark flavored variety). It was sewn in well to help break up the emotional stuff (and was very much appreciated). Here’s an example that made me cackle:

This brunette girl, mad pretty, is bawling when a guy advances on her with some tired-ass pickup line (“Maybe you’ll live to see another day with some Vitamin Me in your system.”)

As a person with a monster truck of anxiety, I very much related to Matteo. Most of the passages I highlighted to save are from his POV. I enjoyed watching him as the story progressed.

The only complaint I can think of is my disappointment that Final Destination was not mentioned ONCE during this entire book, when it had been set up so perfectly so many times. But as I was writing this I had the panicky thought that kids today might not even know what that movie is, which is horrifying

I know there’s a prequel that came after this, and just discovered there’s a book 2 coming out next year. I obviously don’t know what happens in those so I don’t know if this gets answered, but I want another book to come out where you find out there’s some big nefarious conspiracy to how Death-Cast got started, and how people deal with finding it out/having to get it shut down/something like that. Buuut that’s my love of ominous horror/thrillers bleeding into this world lol

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adventurous emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

HOLY SHIT IM ACTUALLY CRYING!!!!!! IM SO SAD NOW!

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abnormal_shadow's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I really like this book. I have a special interest about death I think about it a lot I talk about it a lot so I was like a course I'm going to love this book. The first four points goes to the way that the story is set uw even though the main characters no death is coming they have very different reactions and how they find each other. I usually don't like split povs but I really like this one because not only where we in the main characters head we were in other characters heads ones that we're going to die that day once that were in relation to the main characters and what's that don't really know the characters but interact with them or saw them. All the povs mattered and and added a tense to the book that I really appreciated.

the way is that the book kept teasing me with their death and in the last chapters when Mateo turned on the stove I was like no this is not his end they did this before he's going to survive and he didn't had me balling at work. Even though the story tells you they're both going to die in the end book makes you believe that they won't until they fucking do.

It was depressing and it killed me in some places the way that they've talked about their own lives like it was already over even though they were still living. The additional 0.5 Points goes to making them gay I really appreciate it that. It added a lot of depth to the end that I thought was especially interesting.

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