Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

65 reviews

doctorslycat's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Wonderfully written and a heartbreaking novel. Had me on the edge the entire time, I couldn’t put it down. It’s been a bit since I read it, and if I could read it again for the first time, I would. It does touch on some heavy themes, most of which are pretty self-explanatory, but it does a great job telling them. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a more darker story and are prepared for some angst and grieving with the characters. Though it’s a relatively short time span covered in the book, the writing makes it seem like it takes longer - but in a good way. Love it, and would read it again for the first time if I could!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Child death, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Blood, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Violence, Child death, Death, Grief, and Gun violence

been a little bit, but I do believe the aggressor commits sU!c!d€ at the end of it

astalavista's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Child abuse, Death, and Murder

Minor: Rape

julienicole1106's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Vomit, Car accident, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

lorraine19's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

I was expecting a chaotic, gritty, realistic view of school shooting. I was thoroughly disappointed. Instead, this reads like an overly scripted Hollywood movie. There's so many long dialogues and every character just had to have some dramatic heroic moment even if it made no sense. The type of characters didn't really match the setting. 

I don't like telling spoilers in reviews but I feel like I need to provide examples of scenes to express how unrealistic it was written....

(SPOILERS) The shooter comes in and an auditorium of a hundred students just goes completely silent. When the doors open, not a single person panics or makes a run for it. Everything is controlled and there is little chaos. Police officers find students a couple blocks from the school and BRING THEM BACK. Like what?! (SPOILERS)

Reading the author's note, they state they grew up in a different country and we're unfamiliar with school shootings. They wrote the book in order to "learn about it". Clearly they should've done more research. Insulting to anyone that's been in proximity to violence like this and does not provide a realistic or fair view of school shootings at all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Blood, Cursing, Gun violence, Death, Gaslighting, Child death, Hate crime, Violence, Gore, and Confinement

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Racism, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Dementia, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship

carillon333's review against another edition

4.75

I loves this book! It was a little slow because it’s covered only by like 54 minutes, but that would be expected. This one was very sad, though..

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Homophobia

redheadedtoad's review against another edition

dark sad tense

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.5

I read this book in one sitting and I couldn’t put it down. Reading this did give me a stomach ache
However, I have several issues with this book that dropped the rating. 

1. Everyone I liked died. Hate when that happens and of course it has to happen here
2. The flashbacks were too much and didn’t always add to the plot. Could’ve axed half of them and I wouldn’t have noticed. 
3. Autumn needed to shut up about being a dancer. Oh my god every time it was her POV she was pissing me off. 
4. The mention of
   Sylv being raped by Tyler
   felt like a last minute trauma add on that wasn’t handled very well.
5. The actual logistics of the shooting weren’t the most realistic. Never would there be an assembly where 99% of a school would be in one room like that. Nope not happening in public schools, more kids would’ve skipped and there would be more staff around the building. And then the police part wasn’t the best either. 
6. Last thing, the romance part of this book was odd.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Gun violence, and Suicide

kashrae99's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Murder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicide, Blood, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Medical content, Mental illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Cursing, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Dementia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Bullying, Car accident, Chronic illness, Religious bigotry, and War

cperez18's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Child death, Death, and Gun violence

ehmuhlie's review

dark emotional sad tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Rape, Homophobia, and Child abuse

beki_hilda's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

bawled the last quarter of the book. could not catch a full breath till i was finished reading. and the fact that it all happened in less than an hour was so gut wrenching 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Violence, Gun violence, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, and Homophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Car accident, Medical trauma, and Sexual assault