In an alternate present, a company named Death-Cast
calls Deckers—people who will die within the coming day—to inform them of their impending deaths, though not how they will happen. The End Day call comes for two teenagers living in New York City: Puerto Rican Mateo and bisexual Cuban-American foster kid Rufus. Rufus needs company after a violent act puts cops on his tail and lands his friends in jail; Mateo wants someone to push him past his comfort zone after a lifetime of playing it safe. The two meet through Last Friend, an app that connects lonely Deckers (one of many ways in which Death-Cast influences social media). Mateo and Rufus set out to seize the day together in their final hours, during which their deepening friendship blossoms into something more. Present-tense chapters, short and time-stamped, primarily feature the protagonists’ distinctive first-person narrations. Fleeting third- person chapters give windows into the lives of other characters they encounter, underscoring how even a tiny action can change the course of someone else’s life.
This book teaches us how important every moment of
our lives is and how we should be happy and thankful for everybody that is in our that’s with us and that wants to help. It’s a life lesson hat personally I think everybody has something to learn from.