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Et ils meurent tous les deux à la fin by Adam Silvera

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sharlapeggy's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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

4.0

The ending had me in pieces. Why wasn’t Mateo there to hold him BACK!

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spacegecko's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

3.75

This book made me ugly cry. 

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rayne_1906's review against another edition

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

3.25

2 hours 36 minutes - I didn’t love this book the way I hoped to. To be quite honest, I never really connected with either Mateo or Rufus and I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe their characters weren’t fleshed out enough, I don’t know. I did begin to enjoy the story more and more as I read it though, and I found the ending quite sad, and the last line quite poignant. However, I felt a lot of it felt flat, the emotional, meaningful things that the characters did didn’t feel all that emotional to me as the reader. I feel this book would have been better if it wasn’t so fast paced. I would have loved to have gotten to know the characters more than I did.

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corvidprince's review against another edition

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dark emotional 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

2.5

Ugh. I have mixed feelings about this book. 

The story? The story was phenomenal. I could put the book down, I can see why it's so highly recommended... but I also can't. 

I am giving this a 2.5⭐ rating even though the story was good because there's unnecessary and disgusting ableism. This would have been 5⭐ if it wasn't for the ableism.

On two separate occasions I (a disabled person) found myself disgusted with this book. The first was a POV for one of the death-cast employees. This death-cast employee talks about not caring about deckers and dehumanizing them. The author introduced her as a cane user for the sole intention of making her appear bitter. 

The second occasion was so much worse. The author introduces another POV of a character with muscular dystrophy who [TW: terrorist attack] *blows up a building killing countless people with no remorse out of anger at his disability* This is horrendous, and unacceptable. I cannot rate a book 5⭐, no matter how good the story was, when the author needlessly portrays disabled people like me as *terrorists* because of our disability. 

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kelbalooz's review against another edition

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

3.0


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jdoren3's review against another edition

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adventurous dark inspiring reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

we weren’t cheated out of anything in this book and nothing was expected aside from
what we knew the end result would be
. overall i’m happy i got through but would not read again because it took way too much complaining from the characters and too long of a slow start to actually get to the points that i appreciated. the gay parts were cutie tho i’ll give the book that 😌

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neptunereign's review against another edition

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dark emotional 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

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saturn26's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.5


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sarahshaiman's review against another edition

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dark emotional 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? It's complicated

3.5


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nothingrhymeswithrachel's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful slow-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

3.75

This book definitely has a case of “over-hyped syndrome” which is too bad. It feels like a boring episode of Black Mirror. I definitely liked it, so I rated it based on what I would have if it hadn’t been so hyped up. I didn’t cry like I expected to, and I’m also kinda mad that
we didn’t get to see how Rufus dies. I’m assuming he gets hit by a car but if you’re going to title a book They Both Die at the End, they should BOTH be dead by the last sentence in my opinion, lol.
Lydia held this story together, Amy made me want to smash my head into a wall. Also, Rufus reminds me of Julian from Cemetery Boys (and yes I know this came out first but I read Cemetery Boys first and it’s better imo). That’s all of my opinions, everything else was pretty blah tbh. 

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