Runner-up YA in the inaugural Diverse Book Awards 2020.
16-year-old Mehreen Miah´s anxiety and depression, or ´Chaos´, as she calls it, has taken over her life, to the point where she can´t bear it any more. So she joins MementoMori, a website that matches people with partners and allocates them a date and method of death, ´the pact´. Mehreen is paired with Cara Saunders and Olivia Castleton, two strangers dealing with their own serious issues.
As they secretly meet over the coming days, Mehreen develops a strong bond with Cara and Olivia, the only people who seem to understand what she´s going through. But ironically, the thing that brought them together to commit suicide has also created a mutually supportive friendship that makes them realise that, with the right help, life is worth living. It´s not long before all three want out of the pact. But in a terrifying twist of fate, the website won´t let them stop, and an increasingly sinister game begins, with MementoMori playing the girls off against each other.
A pact is a pact, after all.
In this powerful debut written in three points of view, Yasmin Rahman has created a moving, poignant novel celebrating life.