Book Let Down

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Book Let Down
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Mon, 08-22-2005 - 7:28am

Have you ever got really excited in a book just to be let down by the ending?

I spent all weekend reading Karen Robbards "Superstition" It had so much promise- a murder on the site of a seance where a new investigation team was hoping to connect with the murder of a young girl fifteen years before. For me there was not enough mystery and crime and too much personal relationship and past baggage from our hero and herroine.

Who else has a let down story?


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Mon, 08-22-2005 - 12:51pm

You know, I felt the same way when I got to the end of Must Love Dogs. I was thinking, what? Is this it? I felt that the author just left the book hanging in the middle of the story. :)

Jaime

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Mon, 08-22-2005 - 2:41pm

The Historian was my biggest summer letdown. There was a lot of build-up to finding Dracula, with very little payoff.

But there were nice surprises, too. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan was better than I'd anticipated, as was The Company Car.

TK

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Mon, 08-22-2005 - 9:34pm
Angela Knight's short story in "Bite", the paperback vampire collection frazzled my brain.
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Tue, 08-23-2005 - 3:37am

Teri, I didn't read the books you mentioned, but I had a similar experience when I read the Area 51 books. I loved the books up to 'Area 51: Nosferatu'. It kept Area 51 in the titles after that but then took off on a theme about the gods of Mt Olympus being vampires or something. It was just such a crazy premise that I didn't even get started on them. I read the theme on the back of the books and put them back on the shelf. Anyway, I had the same reaction, 'pick a theme and stick with it', don't go mixing up all sorts of unrelated topics. Gods and vampires just didn't go together.

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Tue, 08-23-2005 - 1:21pm

Jennifer Weiner's Little Earthquakes. I had heard such great things about the book and the character build up was so incredible and then I felt that she thought the book got too long, or didn't know how to end it, so it was like "and they all lived happily ever after, the end." The ending seemed so rushed for all the time she put into developing the characters.

I felt the same way with Good in Bed, but it wasn't as bad as Little Earthquakes. That's just my impression of the books, I know many people who loved them (but then I'm pretty tough to please as far as what I "expect" from a book).

Sarenna

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Tue, 08-23-2005 - 1:27pm
The Pilot's Wife was a letdown for me and maybe Vanishing Acts.

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Tue, 08-23-2005 - 8:45pm
I felt that way about_My sister's keeper_by Jodi Picoult. I was really liking the book, but then I hated the ending and was very disappointed.