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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 think it depends on on the kind of novel. Plot driven novels seem to call for a satisfactory conclusion to the plot (e.g. good triumphs over evil [the dreaded spell checker just tried to make me write 'good triumphs over email'!). But character driven novels often seem to work better with a degree of ambiguity (a reminder that the characters have a life after the end of the novel). 

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  • I think it depends on on the kind of novel. Plot driven novels seem to call for a satisfactory conclusion to the plot (e.g. good triumphs over evil [the dreaded spell checker just tried to make me write 'good triumphs over email'!). But character driven novels often seem to work better with a degree of ambiguity (a reminder that the characters have a life after the end of the novel). 

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