Reading the last book in a series

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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  • it does make me a little sad when a series ends and you can no longer see anything new from your favourite characters.

    I was really upset two years ago when Akira Toriyama (author and artist of Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump) passed away, his art was one of my biggest influences. His apprentice is taking the reigns of future Dragon Ball projects, apparently

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  • it does make me a little sad when a series ends and you can no longer see anything new from your favourite characters.

    I was really upset two years ago when Akira Toriyama (author and artist of Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump) passed away, his art was one of my biggest influences. His apprentice is taking the reigns of future Dragon Ball projects, apparently

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