Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending

I'll have to choose In Love With An Angel (original title: Innamorata di un angelo) by Federica Bosco - read my review here.

SPOILER ALERT.

The whole book is built upon a love story so beautiful and innocent, a forbidden love, an unlikely love. You'd think there's a HEA in there somewhere, right? Or at least a HFN (Happy For Now)? Wrong. At the end of the novel, out of the blue, the heroine's lover drowns and (obviously!) dies and the heroine ends up in a coma, after trying to kill herself. While I get the idea that in some cases authors either choose or have to kill a certain character, I have to wonder why kill a main character? Why write one of those dream-like love stories, just to tear it apart in just a few pages? Yes, I know, there will be a second and a third book in this series, but I'm still trying to reconcile with the fact that Pat died and Mia is in a coma.

Anyway, this is the most surprising plot twist that is still fresh in my head. There have been others, but this is the most recent.

What about you?

3 comments:

  1. I read the spoiler even though I haven't read this book because I probably never will. No harm no foul. Anyway... Ouch! That ending is definitely something else. As in WTF.

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    1. EXACTLY! The story was great but why kill him? It was pointless! I heard that in the second book he comes back as a ghost and she wakes up and is able to see and talk and hear him. I'm waiting for the final book to come out, cause I sure am curious how it all ends. But seriously though, why kill him?? *sniff*

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