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A review by bigteo
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
adventurous
emotional
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
2.25
It wasn’t sad at all for me, just kinda disappointing. At times it kinda felt like a slog to get through.
This book is meant to take place over the span of one day, and because of that I find the characters and their developing relationship a little unrealistic. Honestly my controversial thoughts are that the author could take away the concept of Death-Cast and it might actually be a better book. I’m serious. It does nothing to help the pacing issues I had with the book. Removing it could have allowed itself to expand on the relationships in a more organic way. We didn’t really need to have a narrative reason for the characters to know they were about to die that day for the themes to still be present.
I don’t know. I know it makes for a different book entirely but whatever. I guess I just mean that this really didn’t work for me.
I didn’t like Mateo but I liked Rufus. He was a cool character that was allowed to be troubled, so to speak. So for that an extra star.
This book is meant to take place over the span of one day, and because of that I find the characters and their developing relationship a little unrealistic. Honestly my controversial thoughts are that the author could take away the concept of Death-Cast and it might actually be a better book. I’m serious. It does nothing to help the pacing issues I had with the book. Removing it could have allowed itself to expand on the relationships in a more organic way. We didn’t really need to have a narrative reason for the characters to know they were about to die that day for the themes to still be present.
I don’t know. I know it makes for a different book entirely but whatever. I guess I just mean that this really didn’t work for me.
I didn’t like Mateo but I liked Rufus. He was a cool character that was allowed to be troubled, so to speak. So for that an extra star.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Violence