What’s a book that had you hooked in the beginning and lost you towards the end?
Kiss The Villain by Rina Kent. I love the book don't get me wrong, I just think Kayden could have avoided all that drama by being honest in the beginning. I have yet to finish it.
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffith. It had a great start with the mystery, the interspersed dialogue from the in-universe novel “The Stranger” that tied to the happenings of the characters, and the haunting, gothic vibes.
This fizzled towards the end because it started to become a little too obvious who the culprit was and because the ending of “The Stranger” was >!really weird with it turning out the unnamed narrator was just using the reader as a sacrifice for the demon(?) after him. Like, what? Feels so out of no where for all that build-up.!<
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Seveneves
Isa_Castle on
“Mercy Street” by Jennifer Haigh
It had all these (vaguely) interesting characters and plot points, and the whole time you’re wondering how all the plot lines will intersect; and the then book just… ends.
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Conclave. I loved this book throughout but thought the ending came out of nowhere. I had my going in a totally different direction in my head so it just was disappointing.
AccomplishedCow665 on
Martyr! Turned out to be abysmal
dstuttle on
“Black Leopard Red Wolf” by Marlon James. I really enjoyed it at the start, but eventually the length did me in. It’s over 600 pages, and I’m less than 100 from the end, but I’ve been there for like a year. I’ve lost the motivation.
NietzschesGhost on
It’s a trilogy, but *The Poppy War.* The last half of the last book was profoundly unsatisfying.
andina_inthe_PNW on
{{Dark Matter by Blake Crouch}}. It starts off so intriguing, and the ending is so bleh. What a waste of character development potential.
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The Last Word. I feel like it started with so much potential and then it just got too twisty and majorly weird. I don’t even remember what happened in the end.
OpportunityNew3338 on
I need to reread it I think, but Tender Is The Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica really lost me at the very end. It felt rushed to me and I was disappointed after flying through the rest of the book.
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The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffith. It had a great start with the mystery, the interspersed dialogue from the in-universe novel “The Stranger” that tied to the happenings of the characters, and the haunting, gothic vibes.
This fizzled towards the end because it started to become a little too obvious who the culprit was and because the ending of “The Stranger” was >!really weird with it turning out the unnamed narrator was just using the reader as a sacrifice for the demon(?) after him. Like, what? Feels so out of no where for all that build-up.!<
Seveneves
“Mercy Street” by Jennifer Haigh
It had all these (vaguely) interesting characters and plot points, and the whole time you’re wondering how all the plot lines will intersect; and the then book just… ends.
Conclave. I loved this book throughout but thought the ending came out of nowhere. I had my going in a totally different direction in my head so it just was disappointing.
Martyr! Turned out to be abysmal
“Black Leopard Red Wolf” by Marlon James. I really enjoyed it at the start, but eventually the length did me in. It’s over 600 pages, and I’m less than 100 from the end, but I’ve been there for like a year. I’ve lost the motivation.
It’s a trilogy, but *The Poppy War.* The last half of the last book was profoundly unsatisfying.
{{Dark Matter by Blake Crouch}}. It starts off so intriguing, and the ending is so bleh. What a waste of character development potential.
The Last Word. I feel like it started with so much potential and then it just got too twisty and majorly weird. I don’t even remember what happened in the end.
I need to reread it I think, but Tender Is The Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica really lost me at the very end. It felt rushed to me and I was disappointed after flying through the rest of the book.