What did you think I was going to say after that introduction? That I didn’t like it? Come on.

After a chance meeting/flirtation in Times Square, one of the boys receives the very first Death Cast call and together the boys decide to make the most of the hours they have left. For Orion or Valentino, the world is going to end. Still, for better or for worse the world is certainly going to change following the launch. Others, like Valentino-whose ultra-conservative parents believe that Deathcast is sacrilegious and evil-are more skeptical. Some, like Orion-who has a life-threatening heart condition-welcome it: knowing the day of their death gives them a freedom on every other day, allowing them to shed a lot of the doubt and uncertainty that they carry on the day-to-day. The world is conflicted about this new death-predicting technology. Set in the same universe as Silvera’s massively popular TikTok sensation They Both Die at the End, The First to Die at the End takes place as Deathcast is first launching. It’s always super fun to “meet” favorite authors (even if it was virtual and I was off-screen and silent the whole time so he didn’t actually even know I was on the call until after the fact when I tagged him on Instagram in my excitement), and listening to his enthusiasm made me even more excited for a book I was already pretty excited for. Usually the author talks are over my head, but I have a reputation for being a massive Adam Silvera fan (and, more specifically, for pushing History is All You Left Me on anyone who even alludes to liking sad stories) so I got invited. I preordered it so that I would get the nifty hourglass, and I got the chance to sit in on a chat that Silvera did with Barnes and Noble booksellers. Silvera is one of my favorite writers, and even though I would rather have had the last book of the Infinity Son trilogy, I was pretty psyched for this one.

You wouldn’t know it from how late this review is compared to this novel’s October 4 release date, but I was massively excited to read The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera.

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