Spoiler Alert - How did you feel about the ending of the book?
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Re: Spoiler Alert - How did you feel about the ending of the book?
Yeah I do! I didn't enjoy the book all that much leading up to the storm but even after it was all downhill like honestly nothing happened afterwards and it didn't really have any repercussions for the characters because none of them really had any kind of arc.CommMayo wrote: ↑21 Feb 2018, 12:42Interesting. So you don't think there was any really plot purpose to her death other than to shock the reader?Kieran_Obrien wrote: ↑18 Feb 2018, 13:01 I started to sense that something disastrous was going to happen during the storm.. and it was as contrived as I feared. Her death was wasted on the rest of the characters too; none of them learned anything from her death really (Rose opened up about her daughter but that's not much) and nothing interesting came after it either. Shock ending with no real purpose.
The author probably had grander intentions that just a shock ending but that's how it felt to me.
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I also didn't like the ending. It didn't ring true that Amanda would go out driving in the middle of a storm. You're absolutely right that she kept things together while Mike was on deployment so it was odd that you would run off just because of an argument. I would have rather seen a different resolution that tied in with the general friendship premise - her friends supporting her during a stressful time. The whole plotline of an old schoolmate resurfacing and showing up at her house just seemed to come out of left field, and was a silly plot device to make Mike's PTSD bubble over and cause marital problems.Yolimari wrote: ↑21 Feb 2018, 12:52 Honestly, the end of the book took me by surprise and I did not like it. It was the only thing about the book that I did not like. Yes, one could argue that she acted out of her character because she was resilient during his deployment and afterwards. She was just mad because he was thinking about leaving again to the war. I thought it was weird that she would go out like that in the middle of a big storm. I would have preferred another end. The rest of the book is beautiful.
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I can see your point. Also, with Amanda's passing, it was a way for the author to come full circle with the fly fishing theme, by comparing how each woman to parts of the fly fishing tools.
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I am the same way. In this book, I thought there might be an unexpected death or serious illness. Actually, I thought Thatcher would be the one to die during the storm. I felt the author made it seem like Veronica's plane might crash; I thought the plot twist would be her husband getting killed in a car crash on the way to pick her up at the airport.
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I agree. I just finished this book, and I thought that while sad, it was realistic and well done. It's incredibly difficult to readjust when a military spouse comes home, especially unexpectedly, with an injury, and having experienced the trauma of his friends being killed. While Amanda's impulsive action the night of the storm wasn't in character for the Amanda we knew through most of the book, it wasn't surprising to me given the circumstances. The author maybe could have given more depth to the experience of Amanda's husband coming home and the readjustment, that might have helped.
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She tried to be strong for her kids, husband, and friends but she was just a volcano ready to explode.
I was very disappointed by her character's death. I would have preferred if someone else had died; maybe I'm too biased, but thinking about her family's situation I think they already went through a lot of pain.
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