This Is How It Ends

By Eva Dolan

Book Overview

Three hundred gone. Just six left.

The building was once home to families, friends, children, couples, love, life. Now, almost every apartment is empty, the inhabitants forced out by the developers tearing down the old social housing to build luxury homes.

Only a few of the inhabitants have fought back against the attempts to evict them from their homes and their histories. And they have been joined by passionate student protester and would-be journalist, Ella, who is leading a high-profile media campaign to protect those who refuse to leave.

One night, Ella returns home to find a horrible scene awaiting her-the dead body of a mysterious man. Panicked, she calls her neighbor Molly, who convinces her that the police won't believe she's innocent. Together the two women concoct a gruesome plan to hide the body.

But the secret won't stay buried for long. As truth hangs in the balance, a neighbor tells Molly he had heard Ella arguing with a man in the hallway and mistrust grows between Ella and Molly, as repercussions of that night threaten to change both women's lives forever.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635570522
• ISBN13: 9781635570526
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Boring,boring,boring.....!

I did not care for this book in any way or form...I thought it was very boring right from the start!Way to much filler.

I wanted to read this book based on description. From the beginning, I really struggled to connect with the pages. I wish I had an honest reason why, but the only thing I can think of is (since this was an advanced electronic copy) that because of the font that it was displayed in, it made it physically difficult to read. Aside from that, the book was okay. Now that I am finished, I liked the plot. The part I didn't like was the "Then"/"Now" back and forth. It's not the first book I've read that uses a timeline like that. But this felt like there was just too much of it going on. And it felt haphazard. At times while reading, I mentally felt lost. The order and points in time they went back to seemed out of order. I also struggled to connect with either of the main characters. I couldn't figure out the significance of their big age gap. And the character that I assumed (based on the description) was to be the 2nd main character, should probably have been the actual main character. I finished the book, and was glad I did. I enjoyed the ending and how it played out. It was a great way to close the book. I might recommend this to my psych thriller reading friends, as you definitely are always trying to figure out what is going on.