Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

17 reviews

liagorash's review

emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Stalking, Car accident, and Pregnancy

crispyaot's review

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Grief

rachael_jo's review

adventurous challenging emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Sexual content

abbycrotts's review

okay so i actually didnt finish the book i just read like a fourth and then read the summary for my book club but thats because i just DIDNT LIKE IT!!!!! even though the ending was pretty crazy. i can enjoy that. it just made me feel stupid. like my lexile score was actively decreasing the more i kept reading

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Car accident

orladonnelly's review

adventurous emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

this book made me cry my eyes out in the best way possible. I loved it but I think it could have been better if we had a little more to connect to the characters with as I have seen a lot of people say they didn’t connect to the characters as much so they didn’t like it but personally I thought it was a great read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident

alyssadavis's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but I never ran the race.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content

lastingliterature's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

I truly don’t know how to rate this book.

On one hand, I loved the boys and the message; however, on the other hand, there were some problems with the storyline that kept me a bit distant from full emotional attachment. Let’s break it down.

Things I liked:
-The relationships!
-I like that Mateo and Rufus’s relationship was drawn out very slowly and built over a true connection. It didn’t feel like they got together simply because they were dying or because they were the only ones around
-The friendships with the Plutos and Lidia. Beautiful.
-The representation! Mateo is gay and Puerto-Rican and Rufus is bisexual and Cuban-American. There is also rep. with the foster care system, which you don’t see all too often in YA.
-Interlocking storyline. I always like stories where people’s lives interweave.
-The ending. I won’t spoil anything, but I really like how it played out and wasn’t as predictable.
-The title. Some didn’t like how it “spoils” but is going to happen or they imagine they will get out of it somehow, but I loved knowing what was inevitably happen but had to work to find out how it would.

Things I didn’t like:
-No explanation for any of the fantasy/sci-fi elements. No reason was ever given for how or why they know when people are going to die. Everyone in the book just accepts it and doesn’t care about if a person should have the choice over knowing
-The Necro app (enough said)
-The whole Peck storyline. It seemed too forced and easy for me. 
-Choppy at times. With all of the extra characters added, sometimes I felt it dragged. 
-Emotional attachment. I can’t narrow it down fully, but I just wasn’t *that* emotionally involved in this one. It made me sad to read the ending, but I didn’t tear up and I didn’t have one of those glorious book hangovers that I was expecting.

This is a book that will stay with me. The themes are endless with this one—living life to the fullest, the true value in friendship, the beauty of connection with another human, life is short, etc., etc. It really puts things into perspective. 

Maybe I will change this rating, but for now:

⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content