This is where it ends

Marieke Nijkamp

I'm going to tell my opinion about the book This Is Where It Ends in this review. I find it a fun and exciting book. 

 

This book is about a shooting in a school. Tyler is a former student that got kicked out of his school and he comes back to take revenge. The story is told minute by minute from different perspectives of victims, friends and enemies of Tyler. Tyler locks everyone in the auditorium and starts shooting. Some students are lucky that they are not in the auditorium. What do they do? How do they deal with this situation? Flight? Get help? Be the here? You follow it all in this book.

 

Because the story is so short and each time and is written from the perspective of different students, it is, especially in the beginning difficult to know who is who. You find a lot of different names in the book. It's a nice idea to tell the story from different angles to this incident, that you don't see often in books. Whose perspective was not told, was the one from the main character, he was the offender. What goes through his head during the preparation or when he shot his first victim? What does he think when he sees his former classmates and teachers? It’s too bad they didn't write this, because this book would be better if they did that. The story would become much more powerful.

 

I find the book This Is Where It Ends a violent story, because at the time I was reading this book, about the same happened on a school in America. It's definitely a book for people who don't like reading, because it is very beautiful and it’s well written how it feels for the kids in his situation. If I have to rate the book I will have to give it a 7.5. I think this is because it is a fun and exciting book, but sometimes it takes a long time before anything happened. I am more of the exciting books where much happens in, otherwise I find the books quickly becomes boring. I don’t love reading and if it's not already a long-winded story word I hook off quickly.