This Is How It Ends

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An enjoyable crime drama that demands your attention, focusing on people’s actions rather than the crime itself. Audible UK finally got the audible plus catalogue, so at last I have access to amazing short stories like this without using a credit 🙌 Nyren, Erin (June 21, 2017). "Kat Graham Joins Forest Whitaker, Theo James in Netflix's 'How It Ends' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Penske Business Media. Archived from the original on June 23, 2017 . Retrieved January 25, 2017.

The idea of fighting for the low income against the rich might have been intriguing if I could get behind the characters but instead I just didn’t find it interesting at all and couldn’t find it in me to care about the details to how Ella ended up with a dead man, I was more thinking oh just arrest them all so I can move onto my next read. So needless to say this one just wasn’t my cup of tea although the majority of reviewers do seem to love this one. The ending, of course, was bittersweet and not-entirely happy, but it played out as realistically as one can imagine (frighteningly). I do not have enough positive adjectives to describe my love for this book. Not since “Ninteen Minutes” (Jodi Picoult, of course), has a book on a school shooting touched me to my core. Nijkamp tells one hell of a story- a never ending thrill ride from beginning to end. I ran the gamut of emotions- from a desire to comfort the students, a paralyzing fear for them at the thought of losing their young lives, and of course both sadness and relief when the event had come to a fatal close. O final... Que hei-de dizer eu do final? Soberbo, apesar de muito triste. Dei por mim a chorar e com um aperto no peito por imaginar tudo o que as personagens estavam a passar naqueles momentos. This book is much harder for me to expound on its problems because there are two issues plaguing the better part of this narrative: the way it portrays the school shooting and the way it portrays its respective characters on an individual level as well as for the measure of including "diversity."Susan Sarandon Dropped By UTA Talent Agency After Speaking At A Pro-Palestine Rally In New York City Initially, I thought so too, that's why I requested it as a galley. I was pumped over this book, something similar to my initial excitement to Katie Stout's "Hello, I Love You" (and we know how that experience turned out.) However, I know I am in the minority with my feelings on This is The Way it Ends by Eva Dolan, so if you enjoyed the excerpt and like the sound of the blurb, please go ahead and read This is The Way it Ends, and please let me know what you think of it. Grief is one big, gaping hole, isn’t it?“ I say quietly I don’t even know if he hears me, but my words are as much for myself as for him. "It’s everywhere and all consuming. Some days you think you can’t go on because the only thing waiting for you is more despair. Some days you don’t want to go on because it’s easier to give up than to get hurt again.” Marieke Nijkamp's brutal, powerful fictional account of a school shooting is important in its timeliness." —Bustle.com

Even though, we are shown the characters, I do not feel as if I was given enough information so that I cared for these characters, the characters all felt flat to me. Perhaps it was the way in which the story was written. While reading this book, I wondered if it would work better as - now I am showing my age - an after-school special. Anyone remember them? I would come home from school and these shows would be on television to warn teens against bullying, teenage pregnancy, abuse, dangers of underage drinking/drug use, or showed positive things such as being a good friend, volunteering etc. I don’t know, perhaps a movie of the week or a series on Netflix would portray this book better. Speaking of the town, it’s also small. Like under 7,000 people. Do you really think a single gunman type of school shooting would last for 54 minutes? In 2015? Where nearly every child is going to have a cell phone handy and be able to call the local po-po???I think if I will be columnist, has long had me fired because I finished this book a long time ago and I'm just writing this review, but it's not always easy to put the words and I know several. There is a huge twist at the end that I didn’t see coming. In fact, the ending was worth a half, if not a full, star. Because up until then, this book wasn’t really drawing me in. The two form a bond through a common interest which evolves into a near mother-daughter relationship, a relationship which is tested to extremes when Molly unwittingly becomes an accomplice to murder. When I read its little synopsis, it looked promising but when I started reading it I struggled to make my way through it. I just wanted to finish and get over with it.