FULL REVIEW POSTED: 
 I just got off a fucking 12-hour-long flight to China and I spent approximately half of those hours reading this book, periodically crying, and sitting in my seat staring out at a view of endless clouds because I was not emotionally prepared to just go on with life after finishing this book. (Update: itaEUR(tm)s now been more than ten days since I finished this and I still have a lot of feelings.) 
 Stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen. 
 FYI: this review will be messy and sappy because I feel like this story drained all of the salt and hardness out of me and now I am just a very soft marshmallow that is somehow still managing to hold some semblance of a human form. (Apparently I only write in run-on sentences now. Also, I wrote most of this in the middle of the aforementioned 12-hour flight, so I was tired but somehow also hyper and honestly just running on book feels at that point.) 
 So, the concept of this book is pretty much one of the biggest mindfucks I could ever imagine. 
 Picture thisaEUR"itaEUR(tm)s just after midnight on a day like any other. YouaEUR(tm)re lying in bed, trying to fall asleep on a school night, or maybe youaEUR(tm)re watching tv because you just had to find out whether or not your favorite character survives the next episode, or maybe youaEUR(tm)re working a late shift because you need some extra cash. And then your phone rings, with news that will very literally change the rest of your life: youaEUR(tm)re going to die today. I know, it sounds like the beginning of a cross between a dark, creepy sci-fi book and some cheesy Hallmark movie, one of those clichA(c) Sad Storiesa,,C/ that will make you cry while shoving a bunch of tired carpe diem-esque quotes down your throat. 
 I canaEUR(tm)t say that this wonaEUR(tm)t make you cry, but I can say that it is one of the single most powerfully emotional books I have read in the last year. ItaEUR(tm)s sad and heartbreaking, but itaEUR(tm)s also genuine and empowering and even hopeful. This was my first Adam Silvera book, but I will 100% be checking out his others as soon as I can. 
 They Both Die at the End follows the lives of Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio, two teens who manage to find each other and fall for each other on the day theyaEUR(tm)re both destined to die. Mateo has always been shy and introverted, while Rufus has led a more open and outgoing life, but neither feels as though theyaEUR(tm)ve had the chance to truly be themselves. This is the story of what happens when you have to pack a lifetime of emotions and experiences into a day that might not even last twenty-four hours, of the impossibility of finding the person who finally gets you and knowing you could be just minutes from losing them. It's sad and sweet and sentimental, and the boysaEUR(tm) relationships with their families, friends, and each other felt so raw and real.