With ‘No-way Home’ out and smashing charts, spoilers are becoming mine and yours kryptonite! So how did a book that brandished it’s fate through (spoiler alert!!) it’s title become a New York Times’ Bestseller? I read ‘They Both Die at the End’ to find out!

 

Although it had experienced the joys of fame when first released in 2017, the surge of #BookTok in 2020 has crowned Adam Silvera as the award winning author of a No. 1 National Indie bestseller, the No. 1 YA bestseller in the UK and Australia, and the top-selling YA title on the USA Today bestseller list.

 

Whether you’ve been scrolling endlessly through Tik Tok , or you’ve been hiding under a rock to be unnoticed by Death-Cast you’ve definitely come across the modern fairytale that casts a kaleidoscopic whirlpool over the time and time again told story of the star crossed lovers.So what makes Adam Silvera’s romance “sweetly devastating,passionately honest, breathtakingly human” (Becky Albertalli). 

 

Mateo Torrez’s and Rufus Emeterio’s love didn’t materialise out of their first glances at each other, Lord Capulet ceased to exist, Cal Hockley didn't hinder their romance and Tom Buchanan didn't block the rest of their lives away from each other. However Death - Cast subdued our first, queer, latin american protagonists into living their lingering fantasies and adventures in the span of one day. With the ceaseless siren of “i’m going to die today” integrating itself into their mind, two strangers live their last day alive as their conquest to explore everything from their sexualities to their inevitable deaths. 

 

No wonder it surpassed a 900% increase in prints since 2020!

 

It’s safe to say I was incredibly shocked when they died!. I doubt there were any eyes left unflooded or a tsunami in my case!. Silvera gradually accumulates hope and faith amongst his readership only for him to perish any wishfulness left with an unfair demise. Not only does this exemplify his sensational talent but critiques the dystopian system. With the protagonists dying a short while after truly admitting their love towards one another, perhaps Death-Cast embodies the fateful repercussions of expressing one’s freedom in a homophobic society. 


And that folks, is the recipe to a bestselling YA novel of 2021!