Overall I enjoyed reading this novel and was glad I chose it as my ISU novel, until reading the last few chapters. I can understand that some people may believe that Colin McAdam chose to leave what happened to Fall to the reader's imagination, but I found that a lazy excuse for the author's obvious negligence of satisfying readers, and his inability to create a worthy conclusion. For over half the book, readers contemplate what has happened to Fall, where is she, is she dead, and anxiously await the answers to these questions. Sorry readers but do not expect to get your answers. The ending of a novel normally explains what has happened, and gives readers a sense of closure. Again readers, sorry to be a buzz kill, but do not have such high expectations, obviously Colin McAdam could not even feign competence by creating a true ending for his characters. This novel built up Fall's disappearance for over half the novel, only not to explain it. That is not leaving her death to my imagination, that is just frustrating. I believe it would be right to compare Colin McAdam to Polonius from Hamlet, both characters grab your attention, promising an exciting story, insistently promising to fulfil your needs and answer your questions, then only to have the result of all of their talk be completely irrelevant rubbish. However I am sure that in this current day and age there must some product that Colin McAdam can use to become a more competent writer, though I am doubtful. I would advise him to study the works of Dr. Seuss, at least that man has enough respect for his readers, to supply the world's three year olds, an ending to their stories.
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