I'm talking about a twist or finale so shocking, frustrating, or perfect that you had a physical reaction. No spoilers, just the book that gave you that visceral "WTF" or "OH MY GOD" feeling.
What's the last book that genuinely made you gasp out loud?
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Game of Thrones, Ned getting beheaded. After that happened, I refuse to pick up the books for a year.
Lonesome Dove
I was so frustrated with the ending of Life of Pi. I love it as the story of a boy using all his ingenuity to survive sharing a lifeboat with a tiger. The >!”it was all a metaphor”!< at the end was a huge letdown for me.
Not me but many readers have that reaction to the ending of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series
*Under the Dome* is my favourite book with an absolutely ass ending (No I have no other suggestions, no I don’t know how you’re supposed to get out of that story any other way, yes I know SK painted himself into a corner)
Almost everything by Thomas H Cook. He’s a mystery writer, most of whose books play out both in memory and a present-day storyline, which usually climax in some shocking and devastating reveal. I usual think I have predicted it and am always wrong. For me the best of these have been “The Chatham School Affair,” “Instruments of Night,” “The Interrogation,” “Mortal Memory,” and “The City When It Rains.” Never thrown a book though, they are too precious to mistreat!
Divergent series. I read it years ago but I vividly remember how mad I was at the ending. Also, verity – fuck that book I hated the whole thing and hate finished it and the ending made it even worse.
I had the oh my god feeling for Local Woman Missing.
The Cassandra Project by Jack McDeavitt and Mike Resnick. The big reveal was really stupid.