A review by rayne_1906
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

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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