This Is Not The End

Today’s post is on This Is Not The End by Jesse Jordan. It is 385 pages long and is published by Medallion Press. The cover is white with the title in red and a boy in the corner and his shadow is a demon. The intended reader is young adult, likes end times books, and plot twists. There is very mild sexuality, mild foul language, mild violence in this book. The story is told from third person close of the main character, James. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- James Salley is turning sixteen, 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.

Review- Jordan takes the Anti-Christ, end times stories and makes it his own. James is just a normal guy with some odd things that happen to him. He is very disliked by other people for no reason that he can understand then a man comes to James and tells him that James is going to end the world and the man is there to be help him. That is the basic plot but the story is really about James and him becoming not who he is expected to be but who he wants to be. The story is humorous, sad, character-driven, but I found this book to be up-lifting in the end. James does not just let life or death, in some scenes, just happen to him. When he discovers the truth about himself, he starts to learn everything he can about who he is supposed to be and in that journey discovers himself. Jordan did a good job with this book and I forward to reading his next book.

I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.