Writing style
Dialogue-driven · Direct
Apple BooksThis Is Where It Ends
Mystery and thriller
- Print length
- 288 pagesSourcebooks Fire, 2016
Description
At the start of a new semester in Opportunity, Alabama, students at the local high school become trapped inside the auditorium when its doors fail to open. A shooting then erupts within the room, transforming the opening of the school term into an immediate crisis. Marieke Nijkamp recounts the event through four different perspectives, with the narrative unfolding across fifty-four tense minutes. This compressed structure presents the emergency from multiple vantage points while keeping the story focused on a brief and dangerous period. The result is a tightly timed account of a school shooting and the people caught within its unfolding events.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Fast
Tone
Dark · Frightening · Suspenseful · Tense
Structure
Linear
Focus
Character · Plot
Emotional intensity
5 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 2 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks Fire
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781492622468
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