REVIEW: This Is Where The World Ends

Rating 2/5


 Ok, so I was quite excited to read this book but well this wasn't that book I have been waiting for.

This book is a ridiculously melodramatic and metaphorical contemporaryfocusing on a teenage girl who is constantly throwing a pity party for herself.

I really couldn't stand Janie. She was a pretentious and self absorbed main character. She friendzoned her best friend, Micah, who was secretly in love with her and whom Janie secretly loved back. She hurt him over and over by choosing to date a jerk and completely ignoring Micah.

If Janie and Micah loved each other so much, I don't understand why they didn't just ask each other out. They could have saved themselves so much unnecessary drama if they had just been honest with one another.


Yet I think what lost me most was perhaps the character and the dynamics of their relationship. But then again, maybe it was the lack of plot, because let's face it: the whole time we are just waiting to find out what really did happen to Janie. But back to the characters, ahh... I just couldn't connect with any of them. And that, my friends, is a HUGE problem.

Janie is eccentric, wildly whimsical, and to be honest I kept picturing her as a child in maybe middle school, not a teenager in high school. She's incredibly callow and naive, and absolutely preposterous. Sure, she was a "fun" character, but her level of immaturity was a little off kilter and the way she abused her friendship with Micah made me like her that much less. Speaking of Micah, he was such a hopelessly-in-love pushover, and I'm just not a fan of those character types either. 

Lastly, I just need to talk about that ending, because... what? That's it? No, seriously. Was that really it? That's how we end books now? Just stop it where ever without coming to a conclusion, without attempting to wrap it up. Um. Okay. I guess.



I was left disappointed. It's not a bad book, but there were a lot of problems for me. Given the rating it has and if you're interested in reading it, go at it not knowing anything and don't have any high expectations.