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This Is How We End Things
This Is How We End Things: A Novel | R. J. Jacobs
6 posts | 5 read | 3 to read
Riley Sager meets If We Were Villains in a compelling new psychological thriller by RJ Jacobs, following a tight-knit group of graduate students studying the psychology of lying. When one of them is discovered dead after an experiment, everything the group thought they knew about deception crumbles... Campus is empty, a winter storm is blowing in, and someone is lurking in the shadows, waiting for their chance to kill again. Forest, North Carolina. Under the instruction of enigmatic Professor Joe Lyons, five graduate students are studying the tedious science behind the acts of lying. But discovering the secrets of deception isn't making any of the student's more honest though. Instead, it's making it easier for them to guard their own secrets - and they all have something to hide. When a test goes awry and one of them is found dead, the students find themselves trapped by a snowstorm on an abandoned campus with a local detective on the case. As harbored secrets begin to break the surface, the graduates must find out who's lying, who isn't, and who may have been capable of committing murder. It turns out deception is even more dangerous than they thought... A foreboding new dark academia thriller of deception and suspense, This is How it Ends follows the unraveling of a close group of students as they contend with what it means to lie, and be lied to.
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AudiobookingWithLeah
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Panpan

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- a university mystery
- with only a splash of thrills
- multiple POVs

My biggest issue was the choice for only one narrator, she was nowhere good enough to hold her own with this many characters. It made the story difficult to stay in and unfortunately, even when I did…I found the story to be quite bland. The only action was in the last 45 min. of the audio. Those two things combined made this a very blah kind of book.

DieAReader 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻Onto the next😉 (edited) 13mo
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she.hearts.horror
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Pickpick

This was quite entertaining and went well with my treadmill time. While I did guess the killer, it was a very solid story development.

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Therewillbebooks
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We are very grateful to welcome back author, R.J. Jacobs back onto the podcast this week. His fantastic new dark academia murder mystery novel, “This is How We End Things,“ was recently released and we had a great time discussing the newest book and all things writing. We think you'll enjoy this one. Thanks for listening and happy reading.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Pzp6tuoHCdpOjF3KmJjoj

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Therewillbebooks
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Pickpick

We were thrilled to have RJ Jacobs, author of the wonderful thriller This is How We End Things, on the show. We talk books, writing, and the publishing biz, among other things. It was a fun discussion and I highly recommend the book. Enjoy!

https://spotify.link/dpxw8KuPnDb

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TorieStorieS
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Mehso-so

This thriller moves along quickly across multiple perspectives set in a North Carolina college campus. A group of graduate students under Professor Lyons work on a deception study with experiments that raise ethical issues— and when violence takes place, it somehow only seems to escalate from there. Fast-paced and with an unpredictable plot, this makes for a quick listen. A smaller cast size may have allowed more room for character development.

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britt_brooke
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Panpan

⭐️⭐️ Simultaneously too confusing, yet somehow not complex enough. The lack of depth and development led to a lack of caring about the outcome. If there had been more time for everything to build up then unfold - if reworked as more of a slow burn - this would‘ve been a hit instead of a miss.

PUB: 9.12.23 #netgalley #coverlove