I don’t know
about you, but the ending is usually what makes or breaks a rating that I give
a book. I could be enjoying the book all
along, really excited to find time to read it, and then BAM!
You get hit with a super crappy ending! What is it?
Does the publisher breathe down the author’s back and DEMAND the book
right now, whether or not it’s been finished?
What do I
mean by crappy endings?!
It’s rushed
It just
doesn’t fit
It almost seems
like someone else wrote it
You know the
ones. You almost feel let down when you
finish the story. And you want your time
back! Unfortunately, it seems that there
are more ‘bad endings’ out there than good ones. Even Nicholas Sparks (bless his soul, I think
he is learning!) has endings that rip your heart out, but at least you have an
emotion other than “What just happened?”
The last two
fiction books I have read thoroughly disappointed me with their endings. It almost makes me want to stick with
non-fiction, as they really don’t have endings to begin with! But I would really like to understand why
this happens.
Does the author just not
know how to finish it?
Did they end up
in the hospital and the editor had to find someone to wrap up a well-developed
story?
And that’s
the thing… The story is going well until the end! The author is obviously creative enough
because they sucked me in, in the first place!
There are books that I have cried at the end (Nicholas Sparks, aside),
and those books weren’t considered, in my book, books with bad endings. Things didn’t necessarily go as planned, but
it made sense and it fit and it wasn’t rushed!
Let me know
which books you felt were bad endings and why … So I can avoid reading them!
