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This Is Where the World Ends de Amy Zhang
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This Is Where the World Ends (edição: 2016)

de Amy Zhang (Autor)

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Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:

A heart-wrenching novel about best friends on a collision course with the real world from Amy Zhang, the critically acclaimed Indies Introduce and Indie Next author of Falling into Place.

Janie and Micah, Micah and Janie. That's how it's been ever since elementary school, when Janie Vivien moved next door. Janie says Micah is everything she is not. Where Micah is shy, Janie is outgoing. Where Micah loves music, Janie loves art. It's the perfect friendship??as long as no one finds out about it. But then Janie goes missing and everything Micah thought he knew about his best friend is colored with doubt.

Using a nonlinear writing style and dual narrators, Amy Zhang masterfully reveals the circumstances surrounding Janie's disappearance in an astonishing second novel that will appeal to fans of Lauren Oliver and Jay Asher.… (mais)

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Título:This Is Where the World Ends
Autores:Amy Zhang (Autor)
Informação:Greenwillow Books (2016), Edition: Illustrated, 304 pages
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CW: Rape scene. One of the most horrific suicide scenes I've read. I listened to it as an audiobook and was a bit traumatised by it after. ( )
  Mrs_Tapsell_Bookzone | Feb 14, 2023 |
I could not stop crying.

This book is told from 2 perspectives, Micah and Janie's, and from 2 different time frames, the before and after.

Throughout the course of this book, we learn all about this amazing lifelong friendship between Micah and Janie. These two share a soul and a birthday. They care deeply for each other.

The book opens up with Micah in the hospital suffering from a brain injury. He can't remember anything and Janie is missing. Not only can he not remember the last few weeks, but he can't remember anything right after it happens. As soon as he is told something, he forgets what was said. He is forced to ask the same questions again and again. Police come to question him about what happened "that night", but he can't remember anything.

As the story progresses, we learn what happened and as Micah's brain begins to heal, he begins to remember as well. ( )
  Completely_Melanie | Sep 10, 2021 |
YA -- Intelligent YA along the lines of "All the Bright Places" and "We Were Liars" with well-rounded characters and real-life issues and relationships. A little angsty -- is it possible to be a teen and not feel a sense of injustice/unfair judgement/world is out to get me? Janie Vivian and Micah Carter have been friends since childhood -- they share the same birthday and live next door to each other. Since jr. high, they don't move in the same social circles -- Janie skirts the popular crowd and Micah has one friend, Dewey -- yet they hang out a lot beyond the eyes of their smallish town, Waldo, IA, mostly at the quarry and the rock edifice they have named The Metaphor (intelligent YA). Janie has a horrible relationship with her parents who are not present in the story, except through Janie's mentions -- they seem to be social climbers and that is why at the start of senior year, she moves away from Micah to a larger, newer house further out of town. This event is a catalyst for what follows through Nov. of their Sr. year. Told in before and after chapter either in Janie's voice or Micah's and also excerpts of Janie's journal, we have to piece together the cataclysmic (apocalyptic, according to them -- teenage hyperbole!) event that has divided their world in two. Janie is a creative, free-spirited girl who loves matches/fire, her Skarpie markers and journals, and rocks. Micah is a rule-following (except under Janie's influence), below-the-radar kind of kid. It is clear he loves her deeply, and she probably feels the same, but wants a little adventure/attention/fun before she is willing to admit he is her only. Dewey sees all this for what it is, and bugs Micah to let her go and stop being her whipping boy, but Micah's heart is too big. Dewey also has his own motivations. A little confusing, but ultimately touching to learn there was a fire, an accident, and a whole lot that Micah either doesn't know or can't remember, having suffered some head trauma. The move/parental relationship is not the only thing that sends Janie off, but fear of her future and a dangerous relationship with popular Ander Cameron also de-stabilize her. Ultimately, she is a girl who flew too close to the sun and sweet Micah can't save her. ( )
  CarrieWuj | Oct 24, 2020 |
Trigger warning for rape.

I initially selected this book as one of my 2016 new releases to read because the initial blurb I got for the book suggested a different story than what I got. Instead I got a story that revolved around what I would consider a toxic friendship, a confusing narrative, and a rather abrupt ending.

The story is told in alternating points of view, Micah and Janie or Janie and Micah. Seriously, be prepared to read that phrase a lot in this book. Janie's chapters are the "Before" points of view and Micah's chapters are the "After" points of view. We don't know what exactly what event was before and after, but we get a sense of it earlier on when we initially get to Micah's chapter. We also get journal entries from Janie that provide a look at the twisted fairy tale that she saw her life being.

What to say about Janie. I really wish that I could like her. But honestly, I didn't. You come to find out slowly that though she sees Micah as being her soul mate (blech) and that she knows she is destined to be with him forever, she still dates and has crushes on other guys. Now, I am not saying that is wrong, but it is wrong to lead someone on and or have them have to suck it up while you are out exploring yourself. However, even that would not have made me dislike her if it wasn't for the fact that you start to find out that no one but one other person has any idea that Micah and Janie are friends.

Yes. Can you imagine? You are supposedly some other person's best friend, but shh no one can know because if people realize that she is friends with such a loner it can mean that her popularity will take a hit.



During these revelations I started having less sympathy for Micah, because he knows what Janie is doing and he keeps going along with it. Starting in middle school she stopped acknowledging him in public and has become one of the popular people in their high school.

Janie even acknowledges it isn't fair, but she doesn't care because you are quick to find out that she is self centered and selfish (example, she hates that Micah hangs out with his friend Dewey and she dislikes it when she notices that other girls find Micah attractive) and never gets called out on what she's doing by other people except for Micah once in a while.

Micah in all of his chapters seems broken. Without Janie around he doesn't seem to know what else he is good for besides drinking and playing video games. I honestly started to hate Micah's chapters towards the end because the chapters started to feel so melodramatic and honestly the final reveal was a joke. You have to be pretty out of it to not guess what was coming.



The only real other character in this story is Micah's other friend, Dewey. And I had problems with how he was portrayed in this book. Micah and even Janie know that Dewey has feelings for him, and in this regard, Micah is no better than Janie. He knows he doesn't care for Dewey in the way that Dewey wants, but he keeps hanging out with him. After a while it becomes cruel.

That said, Dewey seems to want Micah to himself and there was way too much angst going on between the two of them for me. The dialogue between these two was just overwrought and danced towards the ridiculous after a while. I mean after a while Micah should have gotten a clue about things a lot faster than he did.

Also there was a lot of punching. I had to roll my eyes after a while, because Micah was recovering and I would say that him getting knocked around as much as he did would have landed him in the hospital again.

The other characters in this story, a guy that Janie has a crush on and then dates, her other supposed friend, her parents, Micah's dad were not there really unless it was to move the plot along further. Ms. Zhang doesn't take a lot of time to develop these characters.

For the most part I found Janie's chapters to be childish. Even after we get to what happens to Janie. Her reactions to it (i.e. get the other person in trouble) and than her realization that this other person may not pay for what they did seem to be the kind of reaction I would expect from someone younger. None of it really rang true, and I think that the author just didn't provide enough detail/dialogue or anything to get me to where she was going with Janie.

Micah's chapters were written by someone who had to be on a lot of painkillers. Nothing made a lot of sense and at one point it felt like we had a time jump of a significant period, but it could only have been a few days or maybe a week at that point.

The main reason why I gave this book two stars honestly were the chapters that were pages from Janie's journal. Her taking a look at her family, her friends, and what she was doing and how Micah fit in were a slight twist on fairy tales. That said, I have seen it done better in other works.

The setting of this small town in Iowa really doesn't work. I feel like a lot of these young adult novels set the story in a small town somewhere and except for some key places that the author chose to highlight, I just hard sighed over everything.

The ending was abrupt and left too many questions unanswered. I also had to laugh at one character telling another character to be a better friend which apparently was the moral of the story. There was also some dialogue between Micah and his father and a trip and man on man the whole thing fell flat. I don't know. I honestly can't recommend this book. ( )
  ObsidianBlue | Jul 1, 2020 |
This book is a masterpiece. I was so enthralled by the characters, story, and emotion that radiated off the pages. It was whimsical and lyrical while also being grounded and earnest. This book is truly captivating.

Things I Liked
Holy hell did I LOVE all of the characters. Janie is a larger-than-life girl in love with fairy tales and metaphors. Micah is an unfocused follower in love with apocalypses and Janie. The characters stories progress in beautiful and heartbreaking ways as we see their dynamic unfold. Both characters are flawed beyond belief and must deal with their own tragedies - their own personal apocalypses - as they navigate a disrupted fairytale.

Janie and Micah’s relationship is TOXIC and it is clearly stated as such by multiple characters in the story. Their relationship is not glorified or set as a standard to look to. That being said, they had one of the most complex and engaging relationships I have ever read. I don’t even think I can give it justice trying to put my thoughts down. Janie burns so bright and Micah just wants to be in her orbit. That’s why he agrees to keeping their friendship secret and help her with all of her ninja-vigilante missions - righting the small wrongs in their world. Micah is so consumed by Janie and she is so manipulative. He would do anything for her, hoping for just a little more than she is willing, or able, to give. When Janie needs Micah to be more than her follower and push her to confront her own struggles - he doesn’t. Because that’s not his role. Janie loves Micah because he’ll go along with her and doesn’t make her confront something that she doesn’t want to and Micah loves Janie for not forcing him to try to be more than a follower. They don’t bring out the best in each other and don’t help each other grow or overcome any difficulties. That stagnation is so heartbreaking when action NEEDS to happen.

I loved SO MUCH about the writing. I loved the Then/Now format, told from Janie and Micah POV respectively. It created two stories that flowed and battled each other - weaving together and drifting apart, like Janie and Micah themselves. Janie’s journal entries really showcased her emotions in the story. We see them transition from happy fairy tales to grim resignation. I loved Janie’s journey as a whole and I felt that she took some of her agency back at the end of the story. I also loved the use of metaphors, they sort of acted as a character in themselves.

-QUOTES: SO MANY AMAZING QUOTES. Some of my favorites:
“Miracles do not belong to fairy tales. Miracles belong to the desperate, because only the desperate believe in bullsiht.”

“That’s the truth, I guess. We don’t catch moments in the passing - we don’t catch them at all. We just reach and scramble and wish for fairy godmothers and Prince Charmings. It’s too bad none of it is real. It really is too bad.”

“I used to think that destiny was fluid, becuase isn’t that the point pf every Disney movie and Saturday-morning cartoon? You make your own choices. You decide how life goes. I always thought that your fate line would change if something happened, bam, something goes wrong and the line on your palm goes all wonky to reflect that. Nope. It still looks fine. Well, fuck you too, fate.”



Things I Didn't Like
Ruined the name Ander for me.

This is not a happy-feel-good book. It’s raw and emotional and eloquent. Because of the subject matter and writing style this is a very decisive book, and you might not like it. I’ve read books with similar premises and couldn’t even finish them, but I think that the story is worth a shot. The book breathes, the words flow, and the characters come to live. I already know this will be one of my favorite reads of the year.


*TRIGGER WARNINGS for Rape, Suicide, Toxic Relationships ( )
  LifeofaLiteraryNerd | Apr 27, 2018 |
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Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:

A heart-wrenching novel about best friends on a collision course with the real world from Amy Zhang, the critically acclaimed Indies Introduce and Indie Next author of Falling into Place.

Janie and Micah, Micah and Janie. That's how it's been ever since elementary school, when Janie Vivien moved next door. Janie says Micah is everything she is not. Where Micah is shy, Janie is outgoing. Where Micah loves music, Janie loves art. It's the perfect friendship??as long as no one finds out about it. But then Janie goes missing and everything Micah thought he knew about his best friend is colored with doubt.

Using a nonlinear writing style and dual narrators, Amy Zhang masterfully reveals the circumstances surrounding Janie's disappearance in an astonishing second novel that will appeal to fans of Lauren Oliver and Jay Asher.

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