The YA Book Log

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Not long after midnight on September 5th, Mateo and Rufus, two very different boys, both get a call from a company called Death-Cast, informing them that sometime in the next 24 hours, they are going to die. They aren’t told how or when it will happen, they’re only told they should start saying their goodbyes and get their affairs in order. Knowing they don’t want to hurt the ones they love the most, they feel it best to distance themselves from their loved ones on their end day. They decide to download the “Last Friend” App, which connects people who have gotten the call. Using that app, Rufus and Mateo are brought together, and they embark on tons of end day adventures together, forming a life changing friendship along the way. Too bad it’s both of their last days. While reading, you can almost forget Mateo and Rufus are on their end days, as the author makes it so the reader is absorbed in their relationship with each other, and their adventures around town . This book is not about death, despite the title, it is about life. It’s a story of two strangers who learn to trust each other to make their final day the best that it can be;  and the choices one makes, knowing they don’t have much time left. A bittersweet story that no one will regret reading.