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The #1 New York Times Bestseller!
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.
#1 Young Adult Debut of 2016
A Publishers Weekly Bestseller
Winter '15 Kids Indie Next List
Goodreads YA Best Books of the Month
Buzzfeed 5 YA Books You Should Be Reading This January
Bustle.com 18 of 2016's Most-Anticipated YA Novels
BookRiot 15 Books out in 2016 You Should Mark Down Now
- Sales Rank: #2430 in Books
- Published on: 2016-01-05
- Released on: 2016-01-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x 1.10" w x 5.80" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 7 Up—Opportunity High School takes pride in leading its students to greatness. After all, its motto is We Shape the Future. However, not all students agree. Outcast Tyler Browne has returned with a vengeance and with his own motto: "I will make sure you remember me." And so begin 54 minutes of hell on earth for students and staff as Tyler holds his audience captive inside a locked auditorium, killing whomever he pleases and offering heartless grace to others. Told from four student perspectives, each with their own frayed relationship to "the shooter," this compelling tale echoes current events. The full-cast narration includes top-of-their-game performances from Nick Podehl, Amy McFadden, Kate Rudd, Whitney Dykhouse, Lauren Ezzo, and Scott Merriman. VERDICT A gripping tale from start to finish. ["With a thrilling narrative, topical subject matter, and diverse characters, this is a first purchase for libraries serving teens": SLJ 11/15 review of the Sourcebooks Fire book.]—Cheryl Preisendorfer, Twinsburg City Schools, OH
Review
"This Is Where It Ends is simultaneously heart pounding and heart wrenching. Every word hits frighteningly close to home and is tragically too familiar. This book will leave you asking questions that we as a society should have answered a long time ago."�-�Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of DUMPLIN'
"Stunning, diverse, and unforgettable, This Is Where It Ends is a book everyone should read to better understand each other and the world around us."�- Robin Talley, author of LIES WE TELL OURSELVES
"As long as there are Newtowns and Columbines there will be a desperate need for gripping, well-written, and poignant novels like this one. We are the most gun-violent country in the world, and yet little has been done to stop these rampage killings. Many people have become numb to the news that yet another child, or family, or congregant, has been murdered. Hopefully a book like This Is Where It Ends will make the problem more real to a generation that still has the time, energy, and willpower to do something about it."�- Todd Strasser, award-winning author of GIVE A BOY A GUN and FALLOUT
"Entirely gripping and fast-paced."�-�Lucy Christopher, award-winning author of STOLEN
"[A] compelling story of terror, betrayal, and heroism... This brutal, emotionally charged novel will grip readers and leave them brokenhearted." - Kirkus
"Love, loyalty, bravery, and loss meld into a chaotic, heart-wrenching m�lange of issues that unite some and divide others. A highly diverse cast of characters, paired with vivid imagery and close attention to detail, set the stage for an engrossing, unrelenting tale." - Publishers Weekly
"With narration firmly rooted in the moment and smooth transitions in and out of flashbacks, each first-person account reveals an intricate web of betrayal and pain that connects the four to Tyler and the horror he has unleashed.
" - The Horn Book Magazine
"A gritty, emotional, and suspenseful read and although fictionalized, it reflects on a problematic and harrowing issue across the nation." - Buzzfeed
"Marieke Nijkamp's brutal, powerful fictional account of a school shooting is important in its timeliness." - Bustle.com
"A compelling, brutal story of an unfortunately all-too familiar situation: a school shooting. Nijkamp portrays the events thoughtfully, recounting fifty-four intense minutes of bravery, love, and loss." - BookRiot
"The core message and potential to open thoughtful discussion make this a solid choice for teen readers.
" - VOYA Magazine
"Harrowing first-person narrations reveal the way characters try to understand what is happening, where they are in relation to the emergency, and what they can do to save those they love... readable, gripping, and well balanced.
" - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"You'll finish this book in a single evening, guaranteed." - Paste Magazine
"Nijkamp's emotional, powerful debut fictionalizes an all-too-frequent occurrence in today's world. Her strong storytelling pulls readers into a school shooting, leaving them amongst the gunman's victims in Opportunity High's auditorium. " - RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars
About the Author
Marieke Nijkamp is a storyteller, dreamer, globe-trotter, geek. She holds degrees in philosophy, history, and medieval studies, and is an executive member of We Need Diverse Books, the founder of DiversifYA, and a founding contributor to YA Misfits. She lives in the Netherlands. Visit her at mariekenijkamp.com.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
This is such a brilliant way to open the book
By stephsco
This book is addictively readable, and yet also hard to read given this is about a school shooting live and in progress. At times, I questioned whether the book was too violent, but seconds later would remind myself of the countless actual school shootings happening in the United States. These mass killings, sprees, and "lone gunmen" have become so commonplace we, the public, are almost irritated when another one surfaces. AGAIN? This book brought the conversation back down to the individuals affected by such a senseless tragedy, and even explores, with a deft hand, that very idea of whether these tragedies are senseless, or if there is some sense in there, though convoluted and misguided.
This is Where it Ends begins with a shot--the starter gun out on the school's track. This is such a brilliant way to open the book, with a student who is not inside the school when the shooting happens. The narration switches from four points of view, each with connections to the shooter and to each other. The entire story takes place over an hour of time, and it's gripping. I read this in 3 sittings--it would have been 1 sitting if not for the day job and life's responsibilities.
As for the "too violent" thought that occasionally surfaced while reading, I want to stress this book is written very age-appropriate to teens. It is violent, but so are school shootings which our younger generation deals with. Gore is not glorified, but instead the humanity and emotion and reality of situations like this. Like how previous generations practiced air raid drills, the current younger gen practices lock-down procedures. It's a reality that a shooting could happen to anyone. No wholesome small town is safe. I still vividly remember Columbine unfolding on the news and being scared that could happen in my town. (In fact, my hometown just this week was the site of a killing spree that made national news, though not in a school.) What this book highlights throughout is hope, determination, and a will to live. That's especially important in a book like this. The characters each struggle in their own ways, but all of them demonstrate hope and bravery.
27 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
"I wanted to fit in here...Instead, I lost everything." ReadingBifrost Review
By Reading Bifrost
“‘I wanted to fit in here.’ His voice rises and falls with a singsong cadence. He has the gun in one hand. His other rests on his waistband where, strapped over his dress shirt and slacks, he carries cartridges of ammunition, perhaps even another gun. ‘Instead, I lost everything.’”
This read ended up being a major disappointment for me. I started out knowing, because of the subject, it was going to be dark and may hit a few sensitive marks. Unfortunately I never came to care enough about the characters to worry with the situation.
The story flips back and forth through multiple characters in different places throughout the school, which could have worked, but they all have some kind of relationship to the others. I found myself having to go back multiple times to remind myself who was who and how they were connected to the others. Overall it just became annoying and contributed to why I never connected to the characters.
There’s also a very severe lack of adults in this novel. Where the heck are all the teachers?! There’s a mention of one or two of the teachers, but as the shooter goes about his business where’s the trained leadership of the school staff in all this chaos? Maybe the author thought she could get away with it just being a “small” school, but small, country schools still have the same requirements as other schools. It’s clear the author wanted the teens to be heroes of the story, but don’t turn the book into a no-adults-exist super-teens story.
The gunman was another point that was lacking. What motivated his actions? He talks a lot with not much to actually say. He has family problems, and he points out that he was lonely, but nothing even hinted on what drove him over the edge and why he chose to take out his pain/anger on the school. To me this felt like a big cop-out, because there’s always controversy over if the shooter could have been stopped if his depression/bullying/abuse was found out beforehand.
Overall, I didn’t like this book. There were diverse characters (how in the world there could be that many diverse characters in that small of a school, no idea, but hey, lets go with it), but the characters lacked any depth. I’d probably skip over this one.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A chilling look at the painful reality of mass shootings and how someone can be driven over the edge
By Nicole Hewitt
This is Where It Ends is an intense reading experience. And, unfortunately, the situation portrayed in the book is all too real in today’s society. (I read an article on NBC News the other day that said there have been more mass shootings in the US than days this year – how scary is that?) The book looks at a school shooting from the perspective of four students who have a connection to the shooter in one way or another – two are trapped in the auditorium and the other two are on the outside, trying to help their friends. The book takes place over a mere 54 minutes, but these students’ lives are completely transformed in that hour.
I actually don’t want to say much about the specifics of what happened in the book or even about the characters because I think that it will be better if you learn about the circumstances and connections between the characters as you go, but I can give some general thoughts.
What I LOVED:
The intensity.
This is the type of book that you CAN’T PUT DOWN. For some reason, I decided to start reading this book at 10PM, just before I should have been trying to go to sleep (actually, this is a pretty normal occurrence for me, but still …). Well, at 1AM, I finally put the book down, exhausted but with my mind spinning. Several times between those two points, I had told myself that I needed to stop reading and go to sleep, but it just wasn’t happening. I had to finish it! The first half of the book was especially intense and had my heart and mind both racing!
How could this happen?
One question that was examined often throughout the book was “How could this happen?” Because the story is told from the perspective of four different people who know the shooter – some very well – these characters are all asking themselves this question. They’re all wondering if they should have known – or, worse, if they could have done something to stop it. The characters’ internal journeys are just as important (if not more so) than the actual events that are happening around them.
Love and sacrifice.
Throughout the harrowing event, the characters all gain a deeper understanding of where their loyalties lie and what is truly important in life. They learn to fight for love and for themselves – and for the people they care about. The message of love and loyalty shines throughout the book, even in horribly dark circumstances.
The negatives:
Slight loss of momentum.
While I loved the entire book, I did feel like the second half lost momentum a bit and the pacing wasn’t as sharp as in the first half. This was especially true for me in Claire’s scenes (but I actually never quite connected to Claire as well as I did the other narrators, so that could account for that).
Unnecessary sacrifice?
At one point a character in the book makes the ultimate sacrifice for another character. I obviously don’t want to go into any detail about how or why that happens, but I will say that something about the whole scene felt off to me. It almost felt like, at that point in the story, the sacrifice was unnecessary, and while I could understand the character’s motives for wanting to protect the other person, the timing seemed very odd to me and I wasn’t exactly sure how the character’s actions were actually helping anyone. Honestly, it almost felt to me like the author really wanted a character to sacrifice themselves in a grand way but couldn’t come up with a great scenario to make it happen. (Sidenote – as an editor, these things probably bug me a bit more than they do other people because I find myself thinking, “Oh, the author could have just made this smallest of tweaks and the sacrifice would have felt necessary – and therefore much more powerful.” And then I can’t stop thinking about that moment. It’s my editor brain talking – sorry, I can’t turn it off.)
This book takes a chilling look at the painful reality of mass shootings and how someone can be driven over the edge. It’s also a story of hope and love and sacrifice amidst pain. Pick this book up. I promise you will not soon forget it. I give This is Where It Ends 4/5 stars.
***Disclosure: I received this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. No other compensation was given and all opinions are my own.***
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