Title: Falls off a cliff
Review: I attended a fiction writing course at Duke several years back, and in one of the very first lessons, we were told never to end a book, story, etc. with a cliche or something that deprived the reader of satisfaction or resolution...and the instructor gave as specific examples endings such as "and then she woke up" or "and then she died." Too bad the author didn't learn this - I was most disappointed to reach the end of this book to find a total cop out on the plot - the protagonist dies, right when you might be able to get a glimpse of the emotional and psychological ramifications of the conflict that forms the basis of the book. That, along with the let down in character development, especially towards the end, the use of highly stereotyped characters, made this book a let down in the end. The author used a nice narrative form, and then got lazy with it. Gripping subject matter, but in the end, a result that mooted the entire point.
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