This is Where it Ends is a story about a school shooting in Opportunity, Alabama. The school sits outside of town. We see this story from four students perspectives, and everything happens within the span of fifty-four minutes. It seemed like a normal start to a new semester, the principal had gathered the students and staff in the auditorium for the yearly speech she gives at the start of second semester. When students stand up to leave at the end of the speech, they begin […]
“I didn’t need to die for him to kill me.”
It wasn’t until I went to Amazon to read some reviews of This Is How It Ends that I realized that the entire book takes place over 54 minutes. That’s it. Just 54 minutes of heart-racing adrenaline, tears, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, terror, and laughter. At 10 am on a sunny morning in January, the principal of Opportunity High School in Opportunity, Alabama, finishes her beginning of the semester speech. It’s the same speech each year, and so a senior named Tomas and his friend […]
Two Dimensional Characters, Three Dimensional World
An advanced copy of this book was received from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. I’m a sucker for a good premise and a good cover. This book has both. It takes place over the course of an hour, on the first day of the last semester of a school year. Just after the principal finishes her speech, people try to leave the auditorium but find the doors locked. Almost the entire student body is trapped. That’s when the shooting starts. Gripping, […]