Marieke Nijkamp Signed Swag for Shelf Indulgence Book Club

Today we were honored to receive signed bookmarks for our August read, This Is Where It Ends. The traveled all the way from the Netherlands to Shelf Indulgence Book Club from Marieke Nijkamp. For now before we dive into the book I'm going to leave you with a little about it and info about the wonderful author herself. This is one book I know that we cannot wait to dive into. 

About the Book: 

Tragedy brings out the worst and the best in people, the students of Opportunity High School (OHS) learn from a school shooting in This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp. Although, people who would listen to him, surround him — including his sister, Autumn — Tyler Browne believes he is all alone. He blames his fellow students for his loneliness and takes his frustration out on them by bringing a gun to school. At the end of the day, thirty-nine students and teachers are dead and many more are injured.

The tragedy at OHS is over in less than an hour. Four narrators tell the story of what happens minute by minute during the shooting. Each tells his experience from his own perspective while the author alternates among them. Electronic messaging about the shooting, sent both by students inside the school, and outsiders reacting to the news, is also incorporated into each chapter. 

About the Author:

Marieke Nijkamp was born and raised in the Netherlands. She is a white, non-binary, queer, and disabled. She has no pronoun preferences, so feel free to use whatever pronouns you like for her.A lifelong student of stories, language, and ideas, she spends as much time in fictional worlds as she does the real world. She loves to travel, roll dice, and daydream.

Marieke’s YA novels include: This Is Where It Ends, which follows four teens during the fifty-four minutes of a school shooting. Before I Let Go, a haunting murder mystery set during a cruel Alaskan winter. Even If We Break, a cabin-in-the-woods type thriller, following five teens, the RPG game that binds them, and the secrets that threaten to break them. When The Night Comes, pitched as The Society meets Contagion.

Additionally, Marieke is the editor of Unbroken, an anthology of 13 stories starring disabled teens, written by disabled authors.

Marieke’s graphic novels and comics include:  The Oracle Code, a graphic novel for DC Books for Young Readers, with art by Manuel Preitano. Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp, a comic miniseries by IDW Publishing, with art by Yasmin Flores Montanez.