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The Survivor Wants to Die at the End by Adam Silvera

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Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Adam Silvera, thank you. I will never forget this series, and this one has been my favorite.  I really really love when a book just makes you sit there staring out the window for a good 30 min after it's over.  I wasn't left in painful tears as in the first two, but it touched me just as deeply if not more than the first two.  Great job portraying Paz's intrusive thoughts along with different coping methods. I think we all get in our head sometimes and the loudest voice is how we talk to ourselves.  Definitely a gifting bundle.  I love, love, love this book. I saw myself in each of the MCs, the parents, the friends...everywhere. 

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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. 

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Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Adam Silvera has repeatedly smashed my heart with a hammer but I also thank him for it every time. I hold this series so deeply in my soul. Most of my review wouldn’t be helpful because it’s truly full of extremely specific spoilers because I can’t bring myself to be vague about moments that are so carefully crafted and beautiful. It’s rare to have each book in a series be just as good as the last. I need an 8 hour therapy session with Adam Silvera himself in order to process this series. 

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Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
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I love this series and the way the author handles taboo/difficult topics. Just like the fictional Death-Cast has helped so many live each day to the fullest, so too have these books helped me realize what it is to live each day.

That being said this one was harder to read than the other two, for reasons addressed in the author's content warning at the beginning of the book. Please read it and take it seriously! Spoiler for relating to a character and topics mentioned in content warning.
As someone who experienced heavy suicidal ideation since childhood, I was not prepared for just how much I would relate to Paz. The complete hopelessness and despair for the future, grieving the person I could have been without feeling the way I did, the way self-harm becomes a crutch... Way too familiar. I found my way out of the darkness with support from my family, my friends, an amazing therapist, medication, and my wonderful partner who I met not long after my Almost-End-Day. And even though I chose to keep living almost 3 years ago, Paz resonated so strongly with me that I needed a little break from reading. But that is part of the strength of his character. Paz is not alone and neither am I and neither are untold others reading his story and relating to it.

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Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

How did I manage to finish a 700+ page book in three days?!? I simply did not want to put this book down. I loved the different direction Silvera took with this story compared to the previous books, a much-needed deviation from the formula IMO. 

There are so many super sensitive topics that are discussed in a mature and empathetic way, such as suicide, mental illness, trauma, parenthood, and grief. I also really liked how Silvera depicted healing as never a linear process, how it’s almost always a constant uphill struggle, and how it’s normal and okay to fall backwards sometimes. I think it’s a really good introduction to young people who may not have heard of BPD before as it teaches them not to demonise those suffering from mental illnesses like BPD but also not to use one’s mental illness as an excuse for their behaviour, something that Paz learns throughout this book. 

I liked both Paz and Alano, whom we see as all grown up after their appearances as children in TFTDATE, I thought their character arcs as individuals were really interesting and I also loved the PINING!! This is truly a slow-burn book, the characters don’t meet for 200 pages and then after that it’s just 500 pages of pining! I really liked how the plot was drawn out over several days so that the romance isn’t as insta-lovey compared to the other books. I’m really looking forward to (and scared of) seeing more of Paz and Alano’s story in the next instalment. 

Now that I’ve said all that, respectfully what the FUCK was that last chapter? Bro can remember things from IN THE WOMB?!?!? Literally WTF that completely took me out of the story bc I was laughing so hard, I had to go and physically look up hyperthymesia to check if that was possible and no it’s not thank god imagine remembering your own birth. Traumatic.

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