This Is Where It Ends

by Marieke Nijkamp

Ebook, 2016

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A small-town high school in Alabama is rocked by a school shooting. There are some good things here, but overall I felt the characters were too one-dimensional, the author tried too hard to convey emotions by telling us what the characters were feeling instead of showing us, and the adults were all

either absent or deeply flawed, leaving a plucky band of students to save their school. Maybe I'm just a jaded old lady, but when students and teachers are being murdered right and left, it's hard to care whether a character gets a Juilliard dance audition. Basically, all the faults I find in most less-than-stellar young adult fiction. This is a topic that is crying out for a strong fictional treatment, but I've read nothing that can match the incredible nonfiction of Dave Cullen's [Columbine] for making me feel like I am right there witnessing horror.

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Young Adult

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Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.