Severely disappointed in this book. I was tired of the overplayed message by the first 10%. After that, it just started to feel like an incredibly patronising lecture. I wasn't a fan of the MCs, but Mateo annoyed me especially with his frequent judgement of how people live their lives, simply because he's jealous.

I was really bothered by the author not explaining anything about the Death-Cast, and while I get that this wasn't the point of the book (the point, apparently, was telling people at gunpoint to carpe diem), you're not even going to tell me what a Decker is and why they're called that, really? And then there were all these damn apps. There was an app for everything in this book. So while I'm being told to live every day like it's my last, the characters are switching between apps like little ipad kids.

I was also confused as to why Rufus and Mateo had to end the day 'in love'. It was rushed and simply not believable whatsoever. But my pettiest complaint is perhaps the fact that while they were 'travelling', the author named countries and in one case even a city, but Africa is just Africa, as if it's not a huge-ass continent. It's just as dumb as when people say they visited Europe. Do better.