A review by thebooktrail88
This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan

4.0

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Eva Dolan has written some of the most gripping and social aware novels that I’ve read and this is no exception. This is How it Ends is a novel of our time in many ways. Ella is a blogger who wants to do something with her life, give a voice to those in need. Molly on the other hand is a campaigner used to protesting against the latest cause and since she’s very closely linked to the latest cause, her efforts increase and suddenly become personal. Both characters were very strongly drawn and their relationship, as it develops over the decision of what to do with a dead body is very gripping to say the least!

I liked the dual narrative – Moly’s present day and Ella’s past leading up to the present day. The ingredients of the novel are sprinkled in separate doses in these chapters and the result is very appetizing indeed!

Lots of weaving in and out of themes and threads this novel contains. Not to mention a situation not to dissimilar to the recent shame of Grenfell – the difference between rich and poor, those who rent and those who own, the council and authorities reaction to the fate of former residents.

It’s a crime novel with a difference – the thinking person’s crime novel set in inner city London with threads of modern day scourges coming to the fore. Oh and the ending is top notch!