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Title: This Is Not the End
Author: Jesse Jordan
Narrator: Graham Halstead
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-22-16
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13
Publisher's Summary:
James Salley is turning 16, and it's not going well. His family's too busy to care, the local bully creates new tortures daily, someone appears to be following him, and he's just learned that he's the Antichrist.
All James ever wanted out of life was for Dorian Delaney - the operatically trained and suicidal girl of his dreams - to fall as in love with him as he is with her. But once he's told of his bloody destiny, he finds himself fighting between who he thought he was and who he's supposed to be.
With the school librarian pushing him to begin the Apocalypse, an irritable homunculus watching his back, and a murderous cabal of Catholics following him everywhere, James must discover how to navigate a world in which everything he's ever believed is wrong - and if it's possible to be the hero of a story when you've already been cast as the villain.
Members Reviews:
Jesse Jordan does it again!
Jesse Jordan has done it again. I bought this book for my 14 yr old (he is not a book worm). He read it in 2 days and loved it! Because of his rave reviews I'm going to read it next.
Good Reading
Sixteen-year-old James Salley discovers he is the Antichrist and his life gets worse than it was before. Everybody avoids him, even his parents, because he makes them feel uncomfortable, afraid and angry. Even the school bully beats him up regularly because of the way the boy feels when heâs around James.
His purpose as Antichrist is to discover the name of Morning Star who is imprisoned in the Pit on Taloon. Ezra and Dink have been sent to help him. Mikhael, Morning Starâs adversary, will then accompany Morning Star to Earth where their forces will fight using Earth as a battleground. There are also human radicals who want to dispose of James before this happens. Jamesâ problem is to carry on living his life while the âotherworldâ story plays out around him.
This book is well thought out and extremely well written. Unfortunately there are way too many footnotes, some of which I felt were unnecessary and others that should have been part of the story, not footnotes. In the first 184 pages there are 47 footnotes, some half a page in length. This tends to interrupt the flow of reading.
Once the story got moving (and I gave up on the footnotes) it grabbed my attention and developed into an intriguing mystery, action novel. The author has managed to get inside Jamesâ head to show how he feels, why he feels afraid, angry, abandoned.
I enjoyed this book especially the end which totally surprised me.
originally posted at long and short reviews
An interesting fusion of fantasy, coming of age, and outright sturm und drang supernatural suspense
For most people, turning 16 means getting a driverâs license, going on dates and working tirelessly to keep their skin clear. For James Salley, though, it means coming face to face with the armies of Hell as the newly-anointed Antichrist.
When we first meet James in THIS IS NOT THE END, he is full to bursting with teen angst, standing atop an old water tower and contemplating taking his own life. Heâs a social outcast --- partly by choice and partly by circumstance --- with few people to call on for comfort. His parents are consumed by their jobs, he weighs a fair bit more than heâd like to and heâs a struggling comic book artist working through his first big idea.
