This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp | Book Review

This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

Reading Group: 17-year-old+ 

Personal Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars

Given Summary:Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun.

10:00 a.m.
The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.

10:02 a.m.
The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class. 

10:03
The auditorium doors won't open.

10:05
Someone starts shooting.

Told from four perspectives over the span of 54 harrowing minutes, terror reigns as one student's calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.

Cover: The cover of this book is dark except for the bright chalk that is being shot through.  I think it's a very powerful book cover and it definitely drew me in when I saw it on the shelf.

My Review: I enjoyed this book.  It was a quick read and definitely showed the fear that comes with a scenario as serious and scary as a school shooting.  However, there were a few things I didn't like about the book.  At the end of each chapter were little blurbs (I think they were supposed to be tweets and a blog post and text messages) and they didn't do much for the book.  In my opinion, they were pointless.  I think the point of them was to show how people outside of the school react, but CJ was live-tweeting and being annoying in my opinion and it would have been better if it was a bunch of different people instead of focusing on the few people who really weren't characters in the story.  Also, I don't know if there was something symbolic about all the sisters losing a brother, but I didn't like it.  Why did all of the girls live and none of the boys?  I wish Matt had lived because it would have been a slight plot twist in the story.  Other than those I did enjoy this novel.  It made me sad, which I think it should given what the topic is, and it was nice to have such a strong reaction to a story.  I think that's a very impressive craft for an author to have.  Even though this may not be favorite book, I certainly don't regret spending my time reading it and I would still recommend it.    

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