The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The background is solid black. There is text from the top to the bottom of the cover, broken up by five white theatrical masks. The text reads:
The author’s name “Marieke Nijkamp” in red capitals.
“#1 New York Times bestselling author of ‘This is Where it Ends’” immediately below this in smaller white writing.
Two masks are below this. One is a plain round face shape, the other is designed to cover the eyes and nose, and has four points above the eye holes.
Below this, half of the title “Even If” in large red capitals.
Two more masks are below this. One is of half a face with pointed cheekbones and eyebrows. The other appears to be half of a cat head.
The other half of the title “We Break” is below this in red capitals.
The final mask in the lower left corner of the cover. It is a simple eye mask with a large tear in the centre, going down the nose.
In the lower right corner, the phrase “Their story ends tonight” in small white writing. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Death
• Blood
• Murder
• Painkiller Addiction
• Ableism
• Transphobia
• Car Accident

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Summary:

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp comes a shocking new thriller about a group of friends tied together by a game and the deadly weekend that tears them apart.

FIVE friends go to a cabin.
FOUR of them are hiding secrets.
THREE years of history bind them.
TWO are doomed from the start.
ONE person wants to end this.
NO ONE IS SAFE.

Are you ready to play?

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Notes:

There is an audiobook.

There appears to be a small TM/N (Trans-Male/Non-Binary) romance plot between two characters going on in the background.

Nijkamp also edited and contributed to the short story anthology Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, which contains stories about disabled characters written by disabled authors.

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Archivist Comments:

I apologise for the caps in the summary. I copy and paste a lot of them and that is how it was written.

This book seems to be quite divisive. I either see glowing reviews of praise or 1-star rants that tear it apart and very little in between. Someone said the characters were so boring and forgettable that they may as well have been “walking talking houseplants”.

Which is hilarious, but I can’t help but feel like a walking talking houseplant would be something you would remember? /lh

For some reason I keep mentally comparing this to Ride the Cyclone. Why? No idea. I think it’s the fact there’s five teenagers.

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