In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
3.75/5. At first I wasn't sure how to feel about the story. I loved the concept, but I couldn't get as attached to the two main characters, Mateo and Rufus, as I wanted to. I felt more emotion when their friends talked about their impending deaths than their actual scenes. I think I couldn't feel as much of an emotional attachment because we could've gotten into the guys' heads a little better when it actually was from their POVs. Also, there were so many chapters about other characters (who either were or weren't dying), that although they played some part in the plot, it felt like it drew too much attention away from Mateo and Rufus. But the end was a crazy twist that actually pulled me back into the story and made me rate this a 4/5 stars. Still, I'm left a little meh about the story overall. I'm a masochist and wanted to ugly cry at the end, but unfortunately it didn't grab me enough to do that.
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