Characters: Mateo: PUERTO RICAN REPRESENTATION AT LAST! Mateo says goodbye to his father and leaves him a note for him to read when he wakes up | Unimpressed, Mateo decides to take Rufus to World Travel Arena, a virtual reality experience that he believes will be more fun |
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Or perhaps you would like to be cremated, in which case | Each tells his part of the story in alternating, time-stamped chapters |
Another character recently broke up with his most serious significant other and tells his friend about his first kiss.
27Rufus is the only survivor of a car crash that killed his entire family | This will probably have a few spoilers |
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The Plutos consist of Rufus, his two closest friends, Malcolm Anthony and Tagoe Hayes and his ex-girlfriend Aimee DuBois | Brightly Adam Silvera uses his ample skill to force readers to examine how they live life now and how they want to live it |
Rufus, Mateo and Lidia go on an "around the world in eighty minutes" tour at the Arena and jump off of a waterfall, allowing Rufus to conquer his fear of the water.
5But nope, we get no knowlegde about that | |
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Vin's story: his only chapter is him deciding to murder-suicide with the bomb that nearly killed Rufus and Mateo | Mateo sings and plays the piano for Rufus, who videos the moment before taking a goofy picture with Mateo for his final Instagram post |
How are Mateo and Rufus unlike the majority of young adult protagonists? I was in denial when there were no more pages after that.