The First to Die at the End audiobook

lmao i finished this masterpiece and now i’ve been staring at walls for hours just thinking about what i just read.just like “they both die at the end” this prequel has multiple narrators but the main ones are Orion and Valentino. and they are some of the most real and deep characters. the timeline for their story is when Death Cast is being introduced and tried for the first time. we see a lot of doubt within almost every character for the trueness of the death cast system. like “does it actually work?” , “there’s gotta be errors in the system,” as many think. it was even more interesting reading from the pov of the death cast creator, Joaquin.just like TBDATE this one was emotional and bittersweet towards the end. tears soaking the page type of shit. i will say, i appreciated how this work wasn’t a repetition of TBDATE, it fully stands on its own as a unique story set in the death cast world. the writing is captivating. and obviously fans of TBDATE will love this but surprisingly i can also see people that didn’t like that book like this oneand side note but we get 1 Mateo and Rufus pov in this one and i fully trained my brain into believing that they’re still breathing alive and well 🤧🤧🤧

I think I like this better than They Both Die at the End??

I really didn’t learn my lesson the first time found, huh?

after hearing a lot of bad things about this prequel, i was scared going into it because i feared it would just be a cash grab. i’m happy to say that i thoroughly enjoyed the first to die at the end. i loooved reading about the backstory, seeing the creator’s thoughts and struggles, the first deckers as well as glimpses of the lives of bystanders or workers for death cast. the lil cameos of mateo and rufus were also really lovely!i’ve really missed reading adam silvera’s works and he did not disappoint with this one. i think people who enjoyed they both die at the end will also be liking this. those who hated it and are reading this prequel will most likely hate it too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the initial novel suddenly blowing up on booktok after four years really gave adam the chance to dive back into this because more stories in this world is all i’ve ever wanted

I can't believe I just heard about this!Actual review-Adam Silvera is one of those authors I put in the “I loved this book, but I’ll never be able to read it again,” category. This is usually due to how emotionally raw and painful his stories can be, and The First to Die at the End is no different. The story goes through several twists and turns and remains clever and surprising despite the title literally saying exactly what’s going to happen. One small issue is that I think there may have been too many pov’s in this book. In addition to Orion and Valentino, you get the friend, a guy who works at Death-Cast, his coworkers, the sister, the… landlord, and way more for some reason. It’s all a bit much. Otherwise, I appreciated this book’s melancholic tone. It takes what we would expect from this universe and expands on it in a way that’s unique, while still keeping the core beauty of the first book’s message intact. And though there were some pretty dark elements and hard-to-get-through-moments, this is still ultimately a love story with a lot of heart. I think it’s safe to say that this book will stay with me for a long while.“Even after coming out, I still don’t know my way in.”

My heart is shattered. I literally guessed everything that was going to happen and I was still heartbroken and shocked when it actually did. I will never get over this series and I will fight anyone who has anything bad to say about this or TBDATE.I was so happy getting a few glimpses of Rufus and Mateo, and all the cute moments between ValentinOrion. It's 4AM now and I have no idea how I'm supposed to sleep rn. My eyes burn from crying for hours. Adam pls give us another one, I beg.

When you find the sequel ‘alright’ and the prequel suddenly shatters your heart in a million pieces.Okay, okay, I shouldn’t say anything because when you’re known as the one who is a sucker for sadder and darker stories and picks those books up time and again, you know what to expect, right?Yes and no. Because this one was less sad and less dark than They Both Died at the End, and still, it pulled my heart out of my chest and broke it, but also mended it beautifully together. I hate death, and I’m afraid to die. I don’t want to think about it and feel time slipping away as I get older. And when I think that family or friends might die, my chest tightens, and a voice in my head screams NO. But I also know that while grieving, my life will go on.As long as you keep existing, you’ll keep breathing, and if you’re breathing, one day you’ll start living again.And that’s what Adam so perfectly shows us. To live our life to the fullest. To do everything we want to do and to love wholeheartedly. Even when people around us are dying or have died. Even when we might die ourselves. The story reminded me in many ways of One Republic’s I Lived. Orion and Valentine, Valentine and Orion. One gets to live, and the other one dies. At moments, tears crept into my eyes and streamed down my cheeks. But I also loved that ending. Even though one of them dies, the other one lives and breathes on and starts living, a beautiful, glorious life in front of him. There’s a reason why Adam Silvera is one of my favorite authors. For a long time, I wanted to rate this story four stars but the last part shattered my heart and mended it back together, full of love for those two boys. And that’s why I can’t do anything else than rate this book five beautiful stars!

I'm not crying, you're crying. 😭😭 Okay I'm totally crying. So many parts made me smile and go "awww" and also there were many parts that made me teary eyed. The last half of the book I was crying half the time. Adam Silvera NEVER fails me. I'm so glad I took the chance on this one after loving the first book so much. Such a beautiful piece of literature, completely grips you the entire time. Moving, breathtaking, captivating and heartbreaking all in one neat package.

"The First To Die At The End" by Adam Silver is the prequel to the best selling novel 'They Both Die At The End' and the Death-Cast Series. To give a background, this one starts the night before the launch of Death-Cast. Death Cast is basically where people get calls a night before they are going to die, death calls.In the last book we had Mateo & Rufus, the duo I officially fell in love with and this one has Orion & Valentino. I fell instantly in love with both these couples the moment I started reading the book. I think in this book we dive deep into the Death-Cast and it's significance. I am officially a fan of this book and series and many others written by Adam Silvera, since the authors writing gives us emotions and feelings to the core. Death-Cast requires you to register for the same in order to receive the calls and all the four characters we see in this duology has some or the other reason which brings them to Death-Cast.I love reading about LGTBQ & Queer Books, this one tops the list very easily. This one as well as the previous books, both were heartwarming throughout the journey of the plot as well as bittersweet towards the end. We also get Mateo & Rufus reference once in this book and it stole my heart.I highly recommend you to pick this one up and recommend this unique stories to others as well. The Death-Cast creator, Joaquin was another interesting plot to read about.

Holy. Fucking. Shit. This book was a few things:1.) Perfection. Complete perfection.2.) Even better than They Both Die at the End.3.) Probably Adam Silvera’s best solo book.4.) A 550-page epic of enormous emotional proportions. I loved They Both Die at the End. This book completely blew the original out of the water for me. I completely adored our two protagonists, Valentino and Orion. I connected more with them than Rufus and Mateo (who I still love!) and felt we got to see a larger amount of character development, likely due to the longer length of the book. They were both fantastic humans, and I can’t think of a single thing I didn’t like about them. They were so easy to root for.I love that the romance aspect was introduced closer to the beginning of the book, because the emotional payoff that came from Valentino and Orion actually falling in love over the course of their day made the overall story and ending even more impactful. The things that they made time to do: the secret train station, the 9/11 memorial, the bridge… every single moment was a beautiful use of their short time together, which was so heartwarming. The references, easter eggs, and cameos from characters in They Both Die at the End made this book more than just the first in the Death-Cast timeline … it actually made the book a true prequel by setting us up for the plot in the future with characters we knew we would encounter again. It was great to read from the POV’s of other characters as well. Especially tiny Rufus and tiny Mateo!*COMMENCE SPOILER ALERT*The ending. Y’all. I am NOT okay, and I finished the book a few days ago. It has stuck with me. Valentino giving Orion his heart was one of the most amazing, moving, emotional, gut-wrenching, bittersweet plot points I have encountered in a book this entire year. Valentino living on through the boy he loved, who loved him, was fucking BEAUTIFUL. I had no words. Valentino’s video at the end of the book. The final lines (see below). All of it. Absolutely incredible.The way this book had me a complete emotional wreck at 2:30 AM. Full-on sobbing. This story (especially the ending) will hold a special place in my heart, because I truly cherished this book. It was moving and meaningful. It was brilliant. Adam truly outdid himself with this one, and I cannot wait for whatever the next installment in the Death-Cast series has in store for us. “…my heart. His heart. Our heart.” ❤️

4.5/5I am emotionally devastated, Adam Silvera why do you always do this to me? But also don't stop, it's incredible! This review is going to be all over the place because I simply cannot get over this book. Prequels always have a unique sense of grief that they're able to inflict upon you. I think it lies in the omniscience of the reader. Therefore reading the tiny links in this story to characters like Mateo and Rufus etc makes their story to come even more heartbreaking and this one all the more poignant, too.Valentino and Orion's story is heartbreaking enough by itself (this added factor just wedged the knife in a little deeper) but their story is not only a heartbreaking one, it's also poetic and hopeful and beautiful.All the thoughts in my head right now are of the ending and many other aspects of this story that I can't talk about without spoiling it, but what I will say is that I thought the structure of this novel was brilliant. It's an incredibly character-driven story, as Adam Silvera's books usually are, and it allows us the simplicity of existing beside these characters, of following their very real, very tragic stories.What I love so much about the Death-Cast stories is that they are exactly that, so very real. The world-building of Death-Cast is amazing and I loved seeing the differences in the world between this book and They Both Die at the End. The world is so clearly thought out and you can see its growth as it changes, as something like this would if it existed in our world. But, amongst this dystopian-esque world are human stories. This is one of the many compelling factors in these books, we follow the human experiences of these people, the world is only their backdrop, the focus is them.The dynamic of the two main characters is very different in this story to TBDATE (due to a number of spoilery factors I won't elaborate on as well as their personalities and who they are) but it also holds the same messages and comforts as they navigate this End-Day (the very first End-Day). I've always said that They Both Die at the End, and now The First to Die at the End, hold a rare comfort within them; it's not a jagged, distressing sadness, but a warm, inevitable one.And that's one of the things we know whilst reading, we know the inevitability of their fates. This book actually adds an element of mystery to this factor, too, but generally speaking we know how the story ends. I find this the most captivating factor of these stories, the fact that we are telling a tale already with the knowledge of its ending. That just because we already know how it ends, it doesn't mean the story isn't important, it doesn't mean the story isn't worth telling.And it's true. We all know, as we exist on this earth, that we will eventually die. No one has escaped it and no one has hidden from it, it is as certain as anything. But that doesn't mean that the things that we do now, that the lives that we live now, are not important. It's a sentiment that even alone would make me cry and Adam Silvera adds to this even more with his beautiful tales.The characters are caring and heartfelt and you can't help but want to hold them in your arms and protect them from the world. I also adored the tales within the story that one of our main characters (a short story writer) tells us, they were breathtaking and read as if they were myths. The story of the Golden Heart was so moving and I'll never forget it.Thank you Adam Silvera for another masterpiece! I find such comfort in these stories (even though I end up sobbing and sobbing and sobbing) I highly recommend you pick this one up!

“I want to make great memories. Something to look back on whenever existing seems hard.” Is it weird that I rated this book higher than the first one? I just loved that this prequel fleshed out the story more, you know. We finally got some answers how Death-Cast operates. I also liked that there is still some mystery left to it. Makes me want to know more, but I believe that some things should be left like that. God, that scene when Death Cast was first introduced is so memorable to me.Valentino and Orion are two lovable characters. Their connection to each other is so heartbreaking. These two are so cute together, but of course we all know how it's gonna end. Joaquin is also an interesting character. I just can't imagine the weight he's been carrying this whole time being the Death-Cast creator. The guy must have it rough. We want you to remember that you are all the captains on the decks of your own ships, setting sail on your own journeys. Stay in motion, or, more simply put, live your life. This prequel has a much deeper philosophy about life, and I love it. Reading it makes me cry so much it hurts tho.

My heart... I can't. The tears are flowing!!! You know the ending and yet it still hurts. I didn't really enjoy They Both Die At The End, but this story really amplified everything from the first book. Death Cast is such a interesting concept and the beginning of it all was a treat to read. All the characters were wonderful too. ValentinOrion will forever be in my heart.

Let me start by saying that TBDATE is one of my favorite stories of all time. I think it's near perfect. I was excited when other stories in the Death Cast world were announced, but also worried that that near perfect world could be overpopulated with unnecessary additions to it. To cut to the chase: TFTDATE is a good book; but I think it suffers from following the original. I think it suffers from trying to recreate the magic from the original, going so far as to copy it too much. Because of this, whichever book you read first, this or TBDATE, the one you read second will feel less magical and impactful to you. (You could, in theory, read them in either order.) But should you read this book? Yes. Overall, it is good and worth your time! As a prequel, it feels gimmicky at times (I rolled my eyes at all the cameos), but on its own I think it stands better. Valentino was an excellent character, and I really connected with a subplot about abuse; and the chapters focusing on the creator of Death Cast and his family on the launch night were the highlight of the book for me. This book is strongest when it leans into the world building and how it affects the characters. I didn't completely connect with Orion though, mainly because I found his character too angst ridden; really, we went with a 9/11 tragedy and a heart condition on one character? Orion never felt real to me; he felt more like a construct/self-insert from Silvera's mind, and that pulled me out of the story, especially when Valentino felt so vibrant. Silvera is an excellent writer, and this world is rich to mine for further stories, but I think Silvera needs to get more daring with future outings here. Having a second book also set in NYC with two queer boys falling in love while documenting their End Day in photographs felt repetitive here, and I don't think we need that story rehashed another time. The next Death Cast story desperately needs to be different from this formula. And lastly, the heart puns got so bad I wanted to claw my eyes out at them, and the phoenix quotes are silly after reading Infinity Son (we get it!), but those were more personal nitpicky things that bothered me while reading. So while this book is good and worth reading, I do think it is a bit repetitive and gimmicky, and it stands better as a standalone. 4/5 stars.

“I understand that the person who gets the Death-Cast call isn’t the only one dying. If you really hold someone in your heart, you die too.” I have so many things to say about Adam Silvera's "The First to Die at the End" that I really don't know where to start. Perhaps due to the fact that this book made me cry like never before and that I loved it from beginning to end. For me in particular, there is something charming (and macabre? morbid?) in short-lived and intense love stories, which end with the death of one or both protagonists.Other than that, the way the story is told is magical. With humor, realism and a lot of tenderness. The connection between Orion and Valentino is immediate and seeing how their relationship evolves over the hours, how they give themselves to each other, is unimaginably tender and satisfying. It's amazing how one gets so involved with the couple even though the title tells you how things end.I definitely recommend this book, it's beautiful. I just would have liked him to spend more time on Orion and Valentino and not so much on other secondary characters, although I understand the need to do so.

i have read »they both die at the end« in 2019 and now, having read Orion's and Valentino's story, i can't believe how little i appreciated other authors not attacking me like Adam does

Esta relación entre los dos protagonistas no la sentí con la misma química que la de Mateo y Rufus, los personajes de la anterior novela. Les faltaba algo de chispa. De igual forma, los momentos especiales y las ganas de abrazar a ambos, siguen ahí.Otra cosa que me ha costado creer es que todo lo que se cuenta suceda en menos de 24 horas. Son demasiados lugares, demasiadas personas, demasiadas conversaciones... y es algo que ya sentí en Al final mueren los dos.Lo que sí me ha gustado es que por fin conocemos mucho más sobre este universo, algo que le faltaba al anterior libro (sí, es inevitable compararlos todo el rato).En cuanto a la trama y el final no hay grandes sorpresas porque más o menos es un libro del que se conoce todo y la clave está en cómo transcurre la historia.PD: hay algún cameo muy, muy guay.En resumen: un libro emotivo que invita a la reflexión en una situación extrema. Personajes correctos, la pluma genial de Adam Silvera y un sin fin de momentos especiales.

It should be illegal for Adam Silvera to make me cry as much as he does with these books. I wish i was joking, but this one made me cry from the beginning to the end just in anticipation of what was coming. It is hauntingly beautiful in such a simple way, and I don't care that some of it might be unrealistic. I just want to curl up in a ball and sob until I have no more tears left to give 😭