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I didn't like this book despite all the prices it got, I find it quite boring. We have to wait for more than 100pages before Rufus and Mateo meet, these pages are supposed to introduce the characters but I didn't feel anything for any of them. The author is unable to transmit any kind of feelings, sentiments through his writing. The next 200 pages are happenings to the main characters but also side characters, a succession of short stories about what they did during their last day. The interesting point is that Mateo and Rufus stories/events are related to the side characters ones, ok that may be a part of originality. But once again, no feeling, no description of Mateo or Rufus' feelings growing, just a succession of events with no sentimental value. The last 100 pages are "the end", at last they acknowledge their love, but what ? Nothing .. of course they die, stupidly. This book is not moving, nothing thought-provoking, disappointing. It can be read but be aware that it won't be a moving and riveting book, it isn't at all ..
I previously read "What if it's us", that book is better even if I found the ending stupid .
You'd better read "The music of what happens", "The gravity of us", "You asked for perfect" or "We contain multitudes", especially the last two.

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Histoire magnifiquement triste

Marjorie Noiseau

Commenté en France le 17 janvier 2021

Ce livre est incroyable. C’est une énorme gifle qui nous dit de ne pas prendre la vie pour acquis. Cette histoire m’a fait pleurer très fort, je recommande à 100%.

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Client d'Amazon

Doesn't deserve the hype

Commenté en France le 25 avril 2021

Kinda disappointed by this book. Everyone said it was incredibly sad etc but I really didn't find it that sad, a bit, but only the last 20 pages and not that much. I didn't enjoy the writting either. It was nice but I don't think it deserves all the hype.

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Célina J.

Pas encore lu

Commenté en France le 15 août 2021

Je n'ai pas encore eu le temps de le lire mais l'état du livre est parfait. Rien à dire, je recommande.

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Heartbreakingly beautiful

Clemence

Commenté en France le 30 novembre 2018

The ending of this book is no surprise, but I still cried, and I would still recommend it. I loved it so much, I couldn't put it down.

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Mohamed EL HARIRIY

incroyable

Commenté en France le 6 juin 2021

livre que j'ai fini en trois jours, j'ai adoré. la manière dont l'histoire se déroule et se finit est parfaite. j'ai cru que j'allais trouver la fin simple ou prévisible mais AU CONTRAIRE, on ne s'attend pas du tout à ça.
je le recommande à 100%
merci adam silvera pour cette perle.

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Client d'Amazon

presque parfait

Commenté en France le 15 juillet 2019

Le livre est arrivé le lendemain même de la commande passée, cependant il est abimé dans le coin de la couverture, ce qui est très dommage car c'est une très belle édition. Outre ce petit problème les pages sont de très bonne qualité.

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Brestin A.

Parfait

Commenté en France le 13 avril 2021

Rien à redire, ce livre est à lire, c'est une véritable pépite ! Je le recommande vivement.

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r.s

Heartbreaking and beautiful

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 15 septembre 2017

This book broke me, I just want to make that very clear before I get into the rest of this review. I don't know why I thought reading a book where the main characters die would be easier because their death is promised in title, it definitely isn't.

Mateo lives a quiet life, too afraid of stepping out of his comfort zone to have done much living when he gets the call saying he's going to die. With his father in a coma and his best friend being a single mum to his goddaughter, Mateo feels alone and turns to Last Friend in the hope of finding someone to help him live his life in twenty-four hours.

Rufus on the other hand lives the opposite of a quiet life, we meet him in the middle of beating up his ex girlfriend's current boyfriend and then he gets the call. It isn't the way Rufus saw things going, he'd already lost his parents and older sister to the Death-Cast, now it was his turn. As events unfold Rufus finds himself on the run from the police and separated from his friends, so Rufus also finds himself on Last Friend.

"No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end."

I was really intrigued by the idea of Death-Cast, is life better when you know that you'll get a call on your End Day? Does it eliminate fear and encourage you to make the most of life? For Mateo it didn't, he spent his days indoors playing video games and following the last moments of others who got the call. Rufus says that it doesn't matter and that he and Mateo just need to accept what is happening and live.

"...I think you should post your life in colour."

Rufus and Mateo share their final hours together through Rufus' Instagram (so Gen Z, so relatable), sharing new experiences, getting to know each other and living as full a life as you possibly can in a day. For such an upsetting book there was some really touching moments that I don't want to ruin for any potential readers, but Mateo and his lego house made me very warm and fuzzy.

"Twelve hours ago I received the phone call telling me I'm going to die today, and I'm more alive now than I was then."

Throughout the book there are stories from other characters, one of those characters is Deidre Clayton, who goes through a tough time dealing with the whole premise of the Death-Cast and has suicidal thoughts because of it. Honestly one of my first thoughts about the subject when I read about it was how could anyone deal with the knowledge that one day their phone will ring and there's nothing you can do to change things? In life you like to think that death can be avoided, if you get in an accident that you could be helped, you can get treatment for illness and get better. The call is a unavoidable death sentence, and that's scary.

"You can't go around telling people you wanna be a tree and expect them to take you seriously."

Something I really liked about the book is the different conversations and opinions about the afterlife. For someone who is afraid of death, yes that's me -and I'm reading a book about so much death, it was really comforting for me to think about what could happen after death, some things I've never thought about. Death is so uncertain and there's no way to ever know what really happens, so we can choose to believe whatever we want if it helps us to navigate the world. It does help, or at least it does for me.

"I will make it so easy for you to find me. Neon signs. Marching bands."

Mateo and Rufus really were the most perfect characters to lead me through this story. Of course it's a curse that they didn't meet sooner but the time they did have together was made so special by their willingness to go all out and just be themselves. The two of them lived out what would have been months of a new friendship, in a single day, and it was beautiful.

I could go on and on about this book, there's characters I haven't covered who are amazing but I want to leave something for anyone reading this who is going to pick up the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes YA/LGBTQ+ reads, obviously there is some sensitive topics in this book so please read at your own discretion and do so in the comfort of your own home with a partner or pet or stuffed animal nearby for all the cuddles -you're going to need a lot.

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Kathy

meh

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 1 avril 2021

I'm unsure how so many people were upset or surprised by the ending of this book when it is literally the title. I found the concept interesting but the lack of detail regarding how death cast works disappointing and disengaging. The slang used by Rufus feels forced but is not a dealbreaker. My biggest complaint would be that it took a long time for the story to built enough momentum to get past the characters backstories. I probably wouldn't recommend this to anyone over the age of 18 as it feels like it was written for a younger audience. the book has some high points, nice character development towards the end and easy to read. definitely not the most engaging book I've read but certainly not the worst

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Kindle Customer

Meh

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 14 mars 2021

What would you do if you knew you would die within the next 24 hours?

I'll tell you what I wouldn't do: read this book. I don't see myself as someone who moans about books, and if you loved this book - which many did - I'm sorry for what I'm about to write; this is just my opinion.

They all die in the end, in a nutshell, is set in a world where a service informs everyone of the day they will die. The story is of Mateo and Rufus and how they become best friends through an app - which was created to match people who will die on the same day - and spend their last day together.

I personally found the friendship between Mateo and Rufus was awkward and both characters were presented as unlikeable. I wanted to find a connection with them but I just couldn't. I wanted to be upset by their death at the end of the book, but I wasn't. The book should of been a tear jerker, but was inconsistent, and felt rushed and left me feeling very underwhelmed.

The book also has chapters that add the story of other characters and 90% of these added nothing to the book and felt like they were just there as filler chapter.

I felt like the book was a chore to read, and has put me off reading anything else by same author

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My biggest bug bare is the instant love connection between the characters; which in my opinion came out the blue and felt so unrealistic as they had met mere hours before and they are 'head over heels'. The love connection seemed unnecessary and I would of been a lot happier if they were just friends.

This book wasnt for me at all - although I'm sure you guessed that by now. There were parts about this book that were good but the cons outweighed the pros by far to much.

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papapownall

Imaginative death cast game caper

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 18 juin 2021

I had heard that They Both Die At the End was a bit weird and I was not disappointed. It's a sort of a Hunger Games / Black Mirror / video game caper in which a phone call from Death-Cast informing Mateo and Rufus that they are both "deckers" and have 24 hours to live. They form an unlikely friendship and try to fulfill their dreams able to undertake dangerous activities without fear. Ridiculous as this all sounds, it works quite well and draws the reader into a strange adolescent world that is not without some dark comedic aspects and reminded me of the style of Scott Pilgrim v The World. This will not be for everyone but there were some genuinely laugh out loud moments for me at least and it is refreshing to read something as original and entertaining as this. I can see this being adapted for film and doing really well at the box office.

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Mike707

Vomitsville!

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 31 mai 2021

I am sorry but this was just awful. The initial concept is quite clever ( a bit like Logan's Run"), but turns out to be a wasted opportunity. So many 5 star reviews - there must be an awful lot of young, gay/bi-curious American readers. I should have been alerted to the few credits on the cover, of whom I have never heard of. So many "yo", "dude", "my bad". I found it corny and schamlzy. "They both die at the end" - I just wished it happened 350 pages earlier.

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