Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

8 reviews

username330's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Bullying, and Gore

Minor: Medical content, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, and Gaslighting

richofficer's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

This book was extremely sad, but realistic to todays society. The pacing was fast, which I really liked, but I was confused about the characters in the beginning and felt I had to write down who was who and who knew who, etc etc. Overall, I think the book was written very well and emotionally and the only flaw this book had was the random chapters that were not needed and the lack of explanation. Other than that, if you are looking to enjoy an emotional, intense rollercoaster, this is the perfect book for you.

I will never be getting over Tómas’ death.

 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Bullying, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Homophobia, and Child abuse

Minor: Torture, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

thatswhatshanread's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

1.0

This book was so frustrating. It took a very serious, tragic topic and made it it into something clearly written for sales and the hopes that some of its weird one-liners would be regarded as profound. 

Yes, it’s a fast read, and no, it doesn’t glorify school shooters. But everything else about it was so wrong, and didn’t do real life mass shooting survivors and victims any justice. The lack of research on the subject is obvious, which is incredibly disheartening. To me, the book just seemed like a grab for money. 

The characters were so one-dimensional, and the familial relationships were confusing because of their lack of depth one minute, and their dialogue being the opposite the next minute. All of the different POVs could’ve honestly been the same person. That’s how little each character differed from the next. None of them stood out except for the school shooter, who was also very cookie-cutter evil from start to finish, giving in to every stereotype, written very lazily IMO, which really diminished the severe gravity of an event like this. None of the characters faltered from their specified roles, unfortunately rendering most of the story rather forgettable. 

Also, the town the story is set in is called Opportunity, and was name dropped beyond proclivity. Which just angered me even more. The writing in general was just not great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Abandonment, Bullying, Child abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Child death, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Blood, Car accident, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Cursing

mokiethe_dog34's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Car accident

sj_booksgram's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Im very careful with my rating system, only giving 5 stars to books I throughly enjoyed. And this was a heart and gut- wrenching novel. I couldn't set it down, every new perspective with each passing minute I felt like I was there side by side with each character. I cried and laughed and was disgusted all along with every one of them. I felt like I was in the thick of it with them. This book may not be for everyone due to its content warnings but my god I will 100% read this again. It broke my heart but it was by far the best book I've read this year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Torture, Violence, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Rape, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Blood, Bullying, Death, and Death of parent

miandi'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Outing, Mass/school shootings, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Gun violence, Grief, Dementia, Death, Confinement, Car accident, Alcoholism, and Abandonment

ameoba's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

A great book. I'm a dude who's been reading my whole life and this is the first book to ever make me cry.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, and Vomit

lay777'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? 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: Alcoholism, Addiction, Abandonment, Bullying, Child abuse, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Grief, and Gore