I really enjoyed this book. It was intense, sad, and made my soul ache. I really enjoyed the writing style, and the way in which the story was told through various perspectives. It gave a fuller picture of the situation, which I think is nice to have with book like this that deal with tragic events.

good ideas, but the book could have been better. the writing was inconsistent (drags in some places, interesting in other places), and the characters all seemed to be slightly different facets of the same person.

I ended up loving this book even with its dark subject matter. But it did take me a bit to get used to the multiple POV’s and had time placing the connections they characters had. Once that was behind me, OMG! There aren’t enough words for how this book made me feel. I felt like I was locked in the Opportunity auditorium with the rest of the students. I’m left even more thankful that my daughter returns home from school each and every day alive and well.

This book left me feeling a lot of things- hurt, passion and awe. I loved the style in which this book was written and the story left me somewhat emotionally unstable. I would definitely recommend this book to others!

I don't even know how to review this book. I just feel like it didn't have enough... enough of what I can't tell you. It was missing something to me.

Tyler feels he has lost everything - well, more like everything has been taken from him. He's angry, lonely, desperate, and feels the only way to make it right is to take his frustration out on the world that has betrayed him - Opportunity High School. His method - a deadly shooting spree - that's how he will not be forgotten.

Caught in the firestorm of Tyler's wrath, this story is told from the perspective of the four people he seeks to destroy - Claire, Autumn, Slyv, and Thomas.

Like: This book is extremely well written from a teenage point of view - not adult thinking, but emotional based and invincible mentality.

Like: It's not political, it's not a social commentary, or philosophically motivated - just telling a story.

Dislike: Culture's misunderstanding of love. Autumn & Sylv's relationship is a perfect best friend relationship, it doesn't need to be physically intimate. Like most teen relationships, it lacks the maturity it needs to really understand the commitment required to make it last.

Dislike: F-word just seems randomly thrown in there and is completely unnecessary when there is very little language in the rest of the book.

This fast paced book about a school shooting takes you through the thoughts and social media of multiple students in a school. This school is in the midst of a school shooting being brought on by an upset student that was kicked out. This book did a great job detailing what goes through the minds of the victimized students. Students portrayed are those that are at the center of the shooting, the ones that are the "cause" for the shooting, as well as students that are on the outside looking in.
It was a quick read that invoked a lot of feelings in me. As I was reading it, as well as after, I took the time to discuss with my teenage daughter what to do if this situation was to arise at her school.
And to discuss ways to handle situations such as bullying, etc. instead of becoming one who tears apart so many lives. This is a good way to open a discussion with a teenager about something that is going on throughout the nation a lot. I liked the fact that this book encouraged, no forced me to sit down and discuss something with my teenage daughter that can be hard to talk about.

I thought that this was one powerful book. It gripped me in the same way that We Were Liars by E. Lockhart did and it didn't let me go until I closed the book. I am still trying to wrap my head around what I think about it. It is hard to say that you liked a book that covers such a hard and sensitive topic. I have a difficult time reading books about shootings because they are still going on and are such an important issue in our country. However, I do believe that the subject matter was handled well and the writing was very beautiful. Overall, a 5 star book.

Das Buch war an sich nicht schlecht, jedoch wurde es dem schwierigen Thema leider nicht gerecht.
Ich kann nicht sagen, was ich mir davon erwartet habe, jedoch waren Stil und Charakterisierung für ein solches Thema zu schwach und unausgegoren.

This didn't live up to expectations and I wasn't able to finish it. I was disappointed in the density of the plot and lack of full emotional look into this real issue.

I found this book hard to read and even harder to review but here goes. As soon as I saw the cover and read the blurb I wanted to read this book and placed an order. School shootings are horrific and yet are something that needs to be written about so we can engage and discuss with teens in the safe way that fiction provides. I found this book so disappointing. The characters were stereotypical. It felt like everyone and the kitchen sink were represented as students in this novel . Presenting multiple students points of view can be a good thing however in this book the multiple narration so was overwhelming, skimming the surface of issues and feelings making it hard as a reader to connect. Overall this book had potential but didn't deliver.

This book about a school shooting, told in multiple perspectives, is fascinating and made for a quick read. This book could be shared with classes and/or a book club.

Being a third-grade teacher this was the book I was most excited to get approved to read. I was not disappointed! It was an excellent read. Although I will not add it to my curriculum for my students to read, I am taking ideas from the book and implementing them into my teaching styles daily. I also think that not only is this a book that teachers of various age students should read I think parents would greatly benefit from reading this book. I highly recommend reading this book!

One student is all it takes to impact a community forever. In the age of preventing a shooting at school take a look into the lives of a handful of students as they encounter our worst fear as parents, students and members of a community.

This Is Where It Ends, by Marieke Nijkamp, is a heart wrenching and intense story about a horrific occurrence that happens all too often these days.
A mass shooting at a school with one shooter and many victims.
The story is told over the span of 54 minutes.
I applaud the author's inclusion of diversity in race, sexuality and disabilities among the well-developed characters.
A powerfully compelling and haunting debut filled with gripping emotion and suspense.
This novel sends a real message about not only the victims but the survivors too.

I look forward to more of this author's work.

Thank you to Net Galley and Sourcebooks Fire for an arc of this novel

I finished this book on my morning commute to work, and realised too late this was a mistake, as I was emotionally traumatised. This is a fantastic book.

A great book to read for anyone with students in school, or students who are in school. We used this book as a middle/high school all read book. The story brings to life how it would feel to be in the middle of a school shooting. It also reminds you that everyone has their own story, and not to presume you know everything about a person.

I was so looking forward to reading this. However, when I started reading it (and I gave it several attempts) I found it just a little heavy-going. I feel like I knew what the subject matter was going to be before I started it but it was just a little too much for me?

The synopsis of this story really intrigued me. It is a story right out of our most horrifying headlines.
When I first started reading the story, I got very confused over who was telling the story. The perspective jumped from person to person. During each time period, the story is told from multiple viewpoints. It got so confusing that I almost quit reading, but just as it is hard to stop looking at a train wreck happening in real time, I just had to keep reading. Eventually, most of it unraveled and became easier to follow.
Miss Nijkamp did a very good job of telling the story from the teenagers' voices. The reader is carried along in real time as all these teenagers lose the last vestige of innocence, as they are brought into harsh reality in the worst way imaginable, and as they experience the truth that you can hate someone for what they do, yet love them for who they are.
This is a good story for young adults to read. This book can get a number of conversations going between teens and their friends, between teens and their parents, and between all parents. The discussion that, yes, this can happen to us. What can we do to prepare and possibly prevent this from happening? That even though someone thinks they need to be brave in the face of tragedy, they need others to gather around them and help them find help and healing. That just because someone is different from you does not mean they are wrong to BE and FEEL the way they do. But mostly that family is everything and blood is not the only thing that defines family.
After a rough start, I really respected the message and story that I feel Miss Nijkamp was trying to get across.

Interesting book. I'm hearing a lot of buzz about it lately. :)