A review by kaitsbookshelves
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

3.0

I was really rooting for this book and I had seen so many online reviews of it being just okay. I really wanted it to be good but it was...not? Like, it wasn't bad but it also just wasn't that good. I thought it was just deeply alright. In this book, we follow Mateo and Rufus who get a call during the early morning of September 5th that that are going to die before the day is up. As they realize that their time is going to run out, they decide to make a Last Friend in each other. They meet up for one epic final day as they say their goodbyes and live their lives to the fullest (as much as they can at least). Throughout this book, I thought that it began to get repetitive and the characters were not developing much. I wished that Rufus would say more or that the story would even get more exciting. I feel like, just as Mateo and Rufus were playing it safe, so was the author of this book. This book is, by no means, bad. I just wished it would give me more. One positive of the book is that it did make me emotional as they described death and how they were feeling as they knew they were gonna die but it wasn't the tearjerker, tug of the heartstrings I was searching for.