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Title: This Is How It Ends

Author: Eva Dolan

Narrator: Jilly Bond, Billie Fulford-Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-18

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Three hundred gone. Just six left.

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

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 protestor and would-be journalist Ella, who is leading a high-profile media campaign to protect those who refuse to leave.

But Ella is in trouble. Because now there are more than six people in the building, but one of them is lying in a lift shaft with a broken neck....

Critic Reviews:

"Elegantly crafted, humane and thought provoking. She's top drawer." (Ian Rankin)

Members Reviews:

This wasn't for me. . .

EXCERPT: 'I'm going to expose you,' he snarled.

The laughter caught in her throat. It was as if he was there in front of her, face contorted with rage, body blown up and pumped for the fight.

'I know what you did, Ella.'

A man ran up the stairs, clipping her shoulder as he passed, but she hardly noticed.

'And I know how you did it,' Quinn said.

THE BLURB: Ella Riordan is a community activist who became famous when she was beaten by police during a social protest. Now Ella is a squatter in a building where the owners are evicting tenants so they can convert it into luxury condos, and sheâs determined to stay and defend the few holdout tenants, despite death threats.

One night after a rooftop party with her fellow holdouts, Ella finds a horrible scene awaiting her in her apartment. In a panic, she calls her neighbor Molly, who convinces her that the police wonât believe sheâs innocent. Together the two women concoct a gruesome plan to hide the body down the buildingâs elevator shaft.

But the secret wonât 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 womenâs lives forever.

MY THOUGHTS: I really did not connect with this book. I read it. I finished it. It was okay.

The book is told from two points of view, Ella's and Molly's, over two timelines, then and now. In some cases this works; in this case it doesn't. There should, ideally, be a 'trigger' for the change in timelines for it to flow smoothly. In This is How it Ends, this never happened. The changes appear to have been totally random, with nothing connecting the switch. I spent a great deal of time feeling confused and going back to the previous chapter to try and figure out what precipitated the change. Usually, the answer was nothing.

This is How it Ends failed to keep me interested. I would read a chapter or two, then wander off to look for something else to do.