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M Thompson
If you are afraid of pain you should not read this book, or fall in love, or have a child, or practice martial arts, or run a marathon. If you think that sometimes pain is just the price you have to pay sometimes then you will be richly rewarded and you will find yourself looking at the edges with a little more empathy.
Maggie Sokolik
The ending went exactly where it needed to go.
Katy Defay
It was not as bad as I imagined. I had a certain fear that did not come to pass, so for that I am grateful.
Shawn
It's as bad as you imagine, but only because it stays true and honest to real life.
Igor
Based on how the rest of the book was going, I thought the ending would be much more subversive and distressing. It ended up being - expected, in a sense. We, as readers, had been building up to it. There's so much more to the book than a simple plot twist at the conclusion that you shouldn't avoid the book just because of discomfort. There is far too much that's deeply disconcerting throughout to worry about a twist.
Ilyssa Wesche
Exactly the question I just asked myself! Glad I'm not alone in my trepidation.
Kathy Szoo
I read this question and answer before I read the book and because of Shawn's answer I was cringing as I turned each page towards the end of the book expecting the very worst to happen. The worst didn't happen but he's right , it was still very sad. Totally worth it though. Unflinchingly honest and unsentimental.
Juliette
It's heart-breaking, but worth it in spades.
Gardenia Plant
It was heartbreaking and hopeless. Realistic, perhaps, but unsatisfying.
Melissa
I don't think it was as bad as I could have imagined. It twisted a bit at the end and I had some sense of hope even though it was the darkest book I've read in a long while . . .
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