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This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

127 reviews

tnemelce's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Suicide, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol and Rape

hamletje0953's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Xenophobia, and Sexual assault

abitofcourage's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Child death, Mass/school shootings, Grief, Suicide, Gun violence, Bullying, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Terminal illness, Rape, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

blessednacho's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This book is excellent. It captures the fear and uncertainty of a school shooting. The characters are believable and interesting. I thought it was really interesting that the book took place over the course of about an hour. However, some of the violence felt meaningless. I get that that's part of the senselessness of school shootings, but sometimes it felt that characters were making choices that were going to get themselves killed with little to no positive impact on the situation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, Grief, Gore, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Child death and Homophobia

Minor: Islamophobia

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

joy_99's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

It was very close to being a 3 star. It wasn’t bad. Some things felt a little corny. It does show that it was written by someone who doesn’t have to experience this first hand but I appreciate the effort. Storyline did keep me wanting to read it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual assault, Mass/school shootings, Rape, Murder, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Hate crime, Child abuse, Child death, and Sexual violence

Minor: Child abuse and Blood

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

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

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