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Reading the last book in a series

TheCatWoman

I've just read the last Merrilly Watkins novel by Phil Rickman, there won't be any more as he died last year, I'm sad as I feel Merrilly had more stories to tell.

Is it good for a last book to have an ambiguous ending that leaves you thinking, or do you prefer everything to be neatly tidied away?

I felt really upset when Elly Griffiths wrote her last Dr Ruth Galloway novel, it was like losing a friend.

Does any one else really miss fictional characters when they can no longer share thier lives with us?

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  • I hate ambiguous endings. I can cope when there is going to be another book. But if it's the end of a series, it drives me mad. I like it to have a definite ending.

    I can feel quite upset when a series ends. They become such big parts of my life. I'm not sure I'd say I miss the characters so much, but the experience of reading about them and going on their journey with them I very much do miss.

  • in reply to Expecto_Patronum

    It's hard when the author dies and you know that there will be no more stories and its unfinished.

    I do miss the characters, I spent so much of my childhood relating to fictional people as there were so few non fictional ones, that it feels sort of akin to being dumped.

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