THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END

In this dystopian world, Death-Cast notifies those who have only a day to live. Mateo and Rufus are two teens who get that early morning call. Michael Crouch and Robbie Daymond narrate first-person chapters that recount their feelings upon receiving the fateful news. Crouch animates Mateo, an anxious 18-year-old who regrets all the years his fears have stopped him from living. Daymond delivers 17-year-old Rufus's sarcasm, bitterness, and fatalism, which began when his whole family died in a car crash and he was sent to foster care. When the two find each other through the Last Friend app, Crouch and Daymond register their tenuous feelings, which soon turn to fondness and deepen into more. Bahni Turpin narrates short passages of third-person exposition that gives more context to Mateo and Rufus's world. S.W. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine [Published: NOVEMBER 2017]