{"id":2251,"date":"2016-10-28T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T18:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2016-10-28T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T18:55:41","slug":"review-this-is-where-it-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"Review: This Is Where It Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was successfully marketed to for this book by <a href=\"http:\/\/biglibraryread.com\/\">The Big Library Read<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapl.org\/\">LA Public Library<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a book targeted to young adults &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=702\">Twilight<\/a> demographics &#8211; about a school shooting.\u00a0 A book for high schoolers about a school shooting seems inherently interesting to me.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Marieke Nijkamp&#8217;s <em>This Is Where It Ends<\/em> is a well constructed thriller with some meat to it. Nijkamp builds a set of detailed characters who turn like clockwork through a believable scenario.\u00a0 The motivations all feel realistic to me, often forming reasons for the horrifying actions without becoming excuses.\u00a0 The story is told from various students&#8217; points of view that form a mosaic view of the events.\u00a0 The plot and storytelling are excellent.<\/p>\n<p>The diversity of the cast is also impressive.\u00a0 Despite being set in a small town, the students all come from believably different backgrounds.\u00a0 Multiple sexualities and ethnicities are all represented without feeling forced.\u00a0 The sexuality of some of the students is a plot point, but not one that is overplayed.\u00a0 It all fit together well and felt like a look at a realistic school, not something constructed to make a point.<\/p>\n<p>The major shortcoming for me was that none of the student&#8217;s narration had a different voice to me.\u00a0 Everyone had different details and features, but their word choices and sentence constructions all were consistent. Nijkamp corralled a bunch of diverse students who all talk like they&#8217;re in the same English class.\u00a0 A missed opportunity, IMHO.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was successfully marketed to for this book by The Big Library Read at the LA Public Library.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a book targeted to young adults &#8211; the Twilight demographics &#8211; about a school shooting.\u00a0 A book for high schoolers about a school shooting seems inherently interesting to me. Overall, Marieke Nijkamp&#8217;s This Is Where It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}