Reviews - The Survivor Wants To Die At The End

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The Survivor Wants To Die At The End

Adam Silvera

4.05 AVERAGE

addie_shea's review against another edition

3.75

Very repetitive beginning with an extremely frustrating main character, phenomenal ending though

tayface43's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional mysterious sad

looseshirttag's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative 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

books51's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

manta_ray_of_sun's review against another edition

0.5

tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Disappointing addition to the series

especially with the cliffhanger at the end

and entirely too long. Graphic depictions of self harm, suicide planning, and despite the author’s tw page at the beginning, there is a described successful attempt, just not of the main characters. Many unsuccessful attempts by them though. A wild codependent ride. Can’t recommend.

Content Warnings

hayleyreadsthings's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

I couldn’t wait for this book, after reading the other two in the series. And now I’ll be counting the hours until book 4 is released.

It was oddly refreshing to have a novel in this genre which doesn’t use “being queer” as the reasoning for suicide. Instead, it’s everything else in the world crashing down on these boys that has them begging for End Days.

I appreciate how the idea of fate was intertwined in this story without having a religious or supernatural feel. I also enjoyed the boys taking their time to get to know each other, communicate, and learn what helps each other grow.

This likely would’ve been 5 stars if it didn’t end on a cliffhanger.

Content Warnings

julesmarren's review against another edition

2.75

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The first book in this series made me fall in love with the premise, the second book made me more curious - this one unfortunately did not quite hit the spot. The two main characters of the book are obviously mentally ill, but I would not recommend reading this book to any young adult who may be experiencing depression, suicidal ideation, self-harm, or any diagnosis in the DSM-5. The thing is suicide is talked about in highly graphic detail and is basically "solved" by an external factor such as romance. This perhaps the number one thing that people should not do - especially putting another human being as the only reason they should live. Let alone a co-dependent relationship that has only existed for less than 48 hours.
The other complaint I have about this book is that it was simply too long and did seem to repeat itself a lot. There were some scenes that went into far too much detail and a lot of exposition that was not warranted- have faith in the audience we do understand. In the first book I found the parallels with Harry Potter to be cute and quirky - but by this book it became a little bit repetitive and drawn out - and starting to extend to other series such as Twilight. I also found myself not as engaged in the highly detailed paragraphs about other fictional stories within the universe - but that that could have been just me. This book probably could've been 200 pages shorter and got the message across.

Alana's mental breakdown at the end just did not make sense to me. Yes, I can see why he was frustrated but his reaction just seemed way too intense. He also came across as a little too Mary Sue-like for me - conventionally attractive, different coloured eyes, super smart - it was like someone describing a character in a fan fiction I wrote when I was 13. Having him be so composed all throughout the book and react that way at the end - it just kind of came out of nowhere with no hints.

Another thing in my rant is - the star crossed lovers story has already been done in every single book in this series. It's becoming a one trick pony, there's so many other amazing things that can be done in this universe, let's try something

Finally, the next book seems to continue the Alano + Paz love story. For me, I allude it to the first Purge movie where this super cool concept is being described but we only get what happens in one single house. I want to learn more about how the world is reacting to Death Cast. All throughout the book I was waiting for someone to get the call.

I am hoping for great things in the last book.