They Both Die at the End question

Me too!! I saw so many reviews saying the book destroyed them and that it was one of those books that you can never read again and feel the same way as the first time you read it.
The ending was heartbreaking, but the first chapters were really slow imo and the ending was also so abrupt like, what was the purpose of Delilah?

This book is EVIL. It's pretty clear that the author's intent was to stab you in the gut and leave you with no sense of hope. Knowing form the start they were going to die doesn't make it any less painful. I was all kinds of angry and depressed after finishing it. Adam Silvera is a sadist.

I was super angry I think that the hardest part for me was seeing the beginning of something that made them so happy but knowing that it was gonna end so soon!!

I was so destroyed, in so many ways, I could have never guessed that would be the ending. I am madder at the fact that we still didn't get to see the reason how D-C found people's deaths but I CAN JUST NOT. LITERALLY NOT.

I think it's also about the realization that the ending of Mateo and Rufus is just.. as mundane as the ending of other people receiving the death call.
We're usually gripped by the hope that an author telling a protagonist's story has something to do with them carrying a certain measure of change against the sameness of their universe. But no, here it's just the author telling a story of two people who end up dying, as simple as that. The realization that an ending is met whatsoever and that death is inevitable, I guess that's a part of the whole perspective, but it's not all.

We can't limit the whole book within the concept of "dying". They both do end up dying, but I don't think that's the only worth of the plot. Many readers are more into getting to the end and knowing what happens -for which I don't blame them for-, but we mustn't forget to acknowledge the events that affected Mateo and Rufus, and the purpose they found in the course of their last 24 hours.

As in for the other characters mentioned, like Delilah Grey and Vin Pearce, I did enjoy how everything intertwined at some point. I found interesting how we get to see the effect of the "Death-Cast" concept on other people; how deckers' responses vary and how the world is the way it is, regardless of Rufus's and Mateo's story.

I wasn't enraged when I finished it but this book has completely destroyed me. It's almost been 24 hours since finishing and I'm still bawling my eyes out every now and then because it just really fucked with my emotions. I pray to god Adam Silvera does a sequel of Mateo and Rufus being happy together in the afterlife. MY HEART IS BEGGING FOR THIS RIGHT NOW!