Marieke Nijkamp's book This Is Where It Ends (published in 2016) is certainly an interesting and unique book. The book takes place over the course of only 54 minutes and goes minute-by-minute through one students quest for revenge as they begin to shoot up their school. Told through four very different perspectives, the book details not only the persons vicious and awful attack, but how innocent victims struggled to survive the attack.
At release, This Is Where it Ends received incredibly positive reviews. Lucinda Dyer of Common Sense Media, for example, loved the book, calling it "Intense and compelling" and saying that "this debut novel balances the senseless violence of a school shooting with uncommon acts of courage and compassion by a diverse cast of characters." Kirkus Reviews called the book "brutal" and "emotionally charged" and said that it "will grip readers and leave them brokenhearted." However, some reviewers hated the novel, calling it an "insult" to victims of school shootings and saying that it sensationalizes such an awful, heinous, and destructive thing that is plaguing the United States.
