Title: Just because OBLIVION was good...
Product review: End of StoryPeter AbrahamsI looked forward to Peter Abrahams' latest, having thoroughly enjoyed reading OBLIVION last year. But at the risk of getting myself blacklisted at First Look, I must express huge disappointment in END OF STORY.The reader doesn't have a chance to bond with the main character, Ivy, at all, before the flimsy case is made for her falling madly in "love" with Harrow. Her shortsightedness gives a bad impression of writers being unable to think rationally, only imaginatively. It was like watching one of those "B" horror movies, when the female bimbo decides to wander off into the woods by herself, and the entire audience is yelling, "Don't go in there!" simultaneously. END OF STORY is the literary equivalent of a "B" horror movie.The "ha, fooled you" ending might work for a short story, but I felt gypped after having invested the hours necessary to read an entire novel. Abrahams, I want my four hours back!
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