A hugely controvesial book, This Is Where It Ends is the story of a school shooting, told in the span of 54 minutes. It's what I would call a simple story - the characters are a little stereotypical and it stands out as a debut novel. However, I thought it was really, really good and I found myself wasting most of the afternoon reading page after page until I'd finished it. 
 The story is told from the perspective of four different perspectives, which did get a little confusing for me at times. The girls voices did sound a little too similar but that's expected from a debut. The voices that stood out to me the most was Tomas and his sister Sylv, the girlfriend of Autumn, whose brother is the one shooting up the place. I connected with her better, I think because she was the most developed character. 
 The story doesn't go into deep psychological analysis of why one of the students decided he'd had enough and grabbed a gun and I kind of like it that way, it isnt needed. What is explored is easily the strongest part of the book, which is the social media reactions to posts as well as the whole media cicus that happens in these situations. It was very, very true to how people would have reacted in real life. 
 Overall, this was an outstanding debut. It wasn't perfect but I'll definitely remember it for a long, long time. I hope Marieke has more books planned as I would love to read more and see her develop as an author, if this book is anything to go by she's going to bring great things to the proverbial YA table.