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A review by sebby_reads
This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
2.0
When a schoolmates becomes the terrorist with a gun and shoots up the school auditorium filled with students and teachers, it’s horrifying. Told from different perspectives of the students, the story covers the 54 excruciating minutes of a shooting at a high school.
I have a mixed feelings for this one. The characters looked too polished to be liked and they became somewhat superficial, albeit the story felt very real. With merely 200 pages, it has very little room to say about the intricate psychology of a person that committed mass shootings especially when the shooter is a teenage student.
There should have been a better perspective story for the perpetrator–not to feel pity on his choice of actions. Its character seemed three-dimensional yet lack of many backstories to trigger this act. The complex characteristics had to be laid out and the psychology of the shooter should have been analysed and explained in more detail.
I have a mixed feelings for this one. The characters looked too polished to be liked and they became somewhat superficial, albeit the story felt very real. With merely 200 pages, it has very little room to say about the intricate psychology of a person that committed mass shootings especially when the shooter is a teenage student.
There should have been a better perspective story for the perpetrator–not to feel pity on his choice of actions. Its character seemed three-dimensional yet lack of many backstories to trigger this act. The complex characteristics had to be laid out and the psychology of the shooter should have been analysed and explained in more detail.