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The Survivor Wants To Die At The End
by Adam Silvera
DID NOT FINISH: 61%
Made the tough decision to DNF this book at 61%. Some spoilers ahead.
It was hard to get into, but I attributed that to it having been a long time since I read the other books in the series, and I needed to catch up. The constant talk of suicide was hard. And by constant I mean hundreds of pages worth. It was just bringing me down and I contemplated DNF’ing multiple times before this. I became more interested as Alano and Paz’s stories started intertwining, but it honestly started reading as a fanfiction… not a lot was actually happening, the characters were kind of just interacting. And this went on for hundreds of pages. Why on earth is this book so long????
There are so many other things that could be said about the portrayal unhealthy relationships in a YA book, but honestly that did not affect my decision to DNF.
Ultimately, I just decided I was bored. I didn’t care enough about the characters to read on for a few hundred more pages, and the constant discussion of suicide was hard. Plus, when I started reading other reviews I found out this book ended on a cliffhanger and that there would be a follow up book about the same characters… yeah not interested in that.
ALSO it’s just interesting Silvera chose to write a book for the Death Cast universe largely based on suicide, because it just brings up so many questions. The previous books I was fine just believing “this is Death Cast and this is how it works” for the fantasy of it all. But the logistics of Death Cast and suicide are just too confusing.
It was hard to get into, but I attributed that to it having been a long time since I read the other books in the series, and I needed to catch up. The constant talk of suicide was hard. And by constant I mean hundreds of pages worth. It was just bringing me down and I contemplated DNF’ing multiple times before this. I became more interested as Alano and Paz’s stories started intertwining, but it honestly started reading as a fanfiction… not a lot was actually happening, the characters were kind of just interacting. And this went on for hundreds of pages. Why on earth is this book so long????
There are so many other things that could be said about the portrayal unhealthy relationships in a YA book, but honestly that did not affect my decision to DNF.
Ultimately, I just decided I was bored. I didn’t care enough about the characters to read on for a few hundred more pages, and the constant discussion of suicide was hard. Plus, when I started reading other reviews I found out this book ended on a cliffhanger and that there would be a follow up book about the same characters… yeah not interested in that.
ALSO it’s just interesting Silvera chose to write a book for the Death Cast universe largely based on suicide, because it just brings up so many questions. The previous books I was fine just believing “this is Death Cast and this is how it works” for the fantasy of it all. But the logistics of Death Cast and suicide are just too confusing.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicide