A review by whitneys_bookstack
The Survivor Wants To Die At The End by Adam Silvera

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

2.0

I LOVED the other two books. I almost DNFed this one but pushed myself through in case cause I think I’d keep going with the series. This one was just so heavy handed with the suicide stuff. *trigger warning cause I’ll be talking about it in this review but also, don’t read the book if it’s a trigger* I knew it was going to be included to some extent but ever other sentence was basically: “I’m going to jump, I want to pull the trigger, I don’t have to worry about __ since I’ll be dead, I’m jealous of the corpses in the graveyard, I can’t wait till it’s finally my end day, I’m gonna die on —- day” to the point where it was just repetitive. Like okay we get it. The book could have been hundreds of pages shorter and we’d still get the point. 
*SEMI SPOILER I guess?** the whole time felt like Alano was babysitting Paz to keep him alive. The whole “relationship” felt very reminiscent of early 2000s emo culture romanticizing SH and being suicidal. The idea that someone will swoop in and save you with their love. “As long as we stay together, love will keep us alive” is such a toxic red flag. It made me not like them as a “couple” even though they had things they could connect on. Really disappointing since I really loved the other two books. I’d probably still give the next one a chance since the central premise is so interesting. 
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