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Your really annoying ending to a book?!

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Liltzero · 09/04/2023 15:55

I've just finished reading a book where the plot was a woman investigating the death of her sister, a death which the police thought was suicide, but she thought murder. The ending was maddening! The reader was left not knowing whether our chief character was murdered by the same man who killed her sister or was she rescued in the nick of the time?!

What books have you read with a frustrating or wrong conclusion or non-conclusion?

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LunaNorth · 10/04/2023 09:31

Stephen King’s Under the Dome.

I literally threw it across the kitchen in disgust. King’s endings are notoriously poor, but that one was a doozy.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 10/04/2023 09:28

One of the Sue Grafton books, P is for Peril. It pretty much implies who the killer is, but like a lot of people who commented on it, I wondered if some pages wrapping it up had been left out.

ChessieFL · 10/04/2023 09:27

Tana French’s In The Woods. Took ages building up a particular plot point only to leave it completely unresolved. That annoyed me so much.

stayathomer · 09/04/2023 15:57

I read a book I the last few weeks where I thought the ending was perfect and then in the epilogue it was a different person who was actually the killer basically going 'I will strike again, I really fooled them' and it just disappointed me so much. I hate a twist for the sake of a twist!