Still annoyed about that time a book just ended mid sentence

I was reading this mystery novel last month, one of those indie ones from a small press in Portland, and it builds up this huge reveal about the killer for like 200 pages. Then right as the detective is about to name them, the book just stops. Like literally a blank page after a sentence fragment. I checked the binding thinking pages got ripped out. Nope. The author put a note online saying he wanted readers to 'complete the ending themselves.' That is not clever, that is lazy. Has anyone else run into a book that just quit on you like that?

2 comments

2 Comments

evan_anderson3d ago

That's not quite a mid-sentence ending, that's more like a missing final chapter. A mid-sentence cut off would be something like a book that literally ends with "and then he said -

kelly_henderson833d agoMost Upvoted

Nah that's still a cut off. Same thing. Just different wording.