To start a thread where we can warn each other about books with crap endings?

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Her by Harriet Lane

I feel like I've wasted time reading this book because it had a truly shit ending.

Also The Deep End by Emily Barr

Please share yours....

The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty - not my usual type anyway, but was my book club choice. Thought it was doing well as book where a bunch of 30/40 something woman are being angsty and having relationship/children troubles, but then she sticks in an epilogue that's basically "and all the problems sorted themselves out, everyone has an amazing life, all the people they hurt turned out to have happy lives and all the bad stuff wasn't bad afterall!" just fucking annoying.

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, it just felt so unsatisfactory.

Inferno by Dan Brown. I enjoy a good adventure/mystery/puzzle story - the ending to this one was just awful though. Very disappointed, especially since I felt his style and stories had greatly improved since The Davinci Code

That should be The Da Vinci Code, of course.

My Sister's Keeper has a crap ending.

Mockingjay - really good, suspense filled trilogy up until the last 10 pages.

Also, The Girl at the Lion D'or. Not so much a bad ending, but you just wait for something to happen, and it just doesnt.

My friend read the first Fifty Shades book and said she hoped that Anna (?) kills Christian in the end.

I can't help thinking that that would have been a much better (and happier all round) ending.*

*Disclaimer: this is lighthearted and I'm not advocating murder even if your partner is an abusive arsehole. As you were.

I did not get where rose's brother went. He becomes a chair?

This is a review on Amazon of 'The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake'. I wish I had read the reviews before reading the book. I was left scratching my head, thinking WTF. I enjoyed the book, but didn't 'get' the ending at all.

Ewww yes! Her and Gone Girl.

Was so pissed off after reading them..and do not get the reviews saying how awesome they are. 'Her' in particular.

MrsGently - I actually quite liked the end of Inferno. Reading Dan Brown is not often something you can talk about in public and to admit to enjoying one even less so! I'm bereft of books at the moment so rereading Inferno.

the lovely bones really loses its way in the last quarter of the book, like an agent got hold of it maybe.

The final 3 words

Then I awoke?

Oh, I know Far! I like to think I have a 'varied' taste in books (the teen years reading Danielle Steele ), I just couldn't take to Inferno's ending. Seemed silly and far fetched, even for Brown.

Currently reading The Girl in the Spider's Web (Girl with Dragon Tattoo series being 'relaunched'). I'm going so slowly with it, really hope this is not one that ends up disappointing because of the new author (slow, but good so far).

Talking of which, what about books that disappoint from the start, when they have been long awaited? Bridget Jones: About a Boy, I still can't re-read it, I'm quite happy to pretend the whole 'story' didn't happen to be honest (also had a bit of a crap ending, actually).

I saw the title and wanted to say her. But see you've all beaten me to it.

Doesn't quite count as its a film, but I like to pretend the 28 weeks later didn't happen, because the end of 28 days later was much more optimistic. I'll only acknowledge it if they do a 28 months later with a happier ending.

YY to Captain Corelli and The Little Friend. I had the same reaction about whether a few pages were missing on the latter.

Have mixed feelings about A God in Ruins but tend to agree it would have been better without the twist.

Just about anything by Ian McEwan. My usual experience with him is that I enjoy the book until the last few pages and then the ending ruins it. Sweet Tooth filled me with rage. We had him on MN a little while ago for a web chat and I took him to task about it - and he told me I'd misunderstood the ending. (I don't think I had.)

Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow. Brilliant thriller which quite inexplicably turns into an episode of The X Files in the last few pages. And not even a good X Files episode, either, one of the crap ones where you watch it and think, "Oh well, maybe next week will be better." I now have to stop reading it ten pages from the end.

Is no one else going to say 'One Day', where we get the ending and then it carries on, in a really shit manner, before petering off into nothingness?

When I got to the 'ending' part (people will know which part I mean), I wanted to hurl the book across the room. I'd read the book, really looked forward to it, hated both lead characters with a passion but waited it out. Then, finally, the build up paid off and then...that happened.

Fuck.off.

And yes, Gone Girl, which, against the grain, I enjoyed. It's like the author went 'Fuck it, make up your own ending, I can't be arsed'.

Agreed totally about Gone Girl - but it's more than just the ending, the entire second half is rubbish.

I also agree about Liz Jenson. Unfortunately, I've read 3 by her, and they all have rubbish endings.

And I also agree about The Lovely Bones, which I thought was an unsatisfactory read.

The book Audrey Neffinger brought out after The Time Travellor's Wife (which I thought was brilliant) was awful and ridiculous after a v promising start.

The woman who went to bed for a year, or words to that effect. Utter shite.

And anything by Jodi Picoult.

You are all wrong about Her. And Gone Girl.

I bet you all liked the ending of Fatal Attraction.

Well, Fatal Attraction is a bag of shite throughout, regardless of the ending.

Misogynistic bollocks.

The very very end of Her is ok.

It's the reveal of the motivation that is so very disappointing - I didn't believe in it at all.

Dont ever read my sister keeper. The twist left you shouting....why? I refuse to read jodi picoult since i read my sister keeper. Just a waste.

The critically-acclaimed book du jour, on the Booker shortlist, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.

And I say this as someone who adores grim, lengthy, literary novels in which plot is subordinated to character. But in fact, it isn't just the ending - the entire 720 pages are a sort of high grade misery porn, and we're led on towards the dubious 'payoff' of what exactly was done to the protagonist as a child that results in his horrific injuries, chronic pain and addiction to self-harm - though the ending just adds the ultimate grim cherry on top of the icecream sundae of graphic horribleness.

It makes the end of Jude the Obscure seem like The Railway Children.

Ah Elvira, but I thought that was very good. How something so bland and inconsequential - in a certain type of mind - assumes such significance.