They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera - HIGH

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera, 400 pages. HarperCollins, 2017. $11 (paperback)

Language: R (100+ swears, 25 “f”); Mature Content:PG-13 (sex talk); Violence: PG (fight)

BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH

Mateo is angry, assuaging his anger by beating up his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend, but today he is going to die.  Rufus is alone, his dad in a coma, and he too will be dying today. Death Cast has called and there is no escaping their fate.  No one knows how Death Cast knows who will die, but between 12am – 3 am, if its your turn, you will get a call.  Through the Last Friend app, the two boys find each other and spend the last hours of their last days together – finding friendship and then something even more in each other - hoping they might be the first ones to escape their fate.

Silvera’s invention of Death Cast is brilliant! Mateo and Rufus are both well worth getting to know and following their final day has humor, pathos, and love – even if you know that they will both be gone when it is done.

Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS