Brett Hodnett reviewed I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Loved it
4 stars
Great book. Creepy and engaging.
audio cd
Published Aug. 25, 2020 by Simon & Schuster Audio.
4 stars
(20 reviews)
mikerickson reviewed I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Review of "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
This was a swing and a miss for me.
Not to say that I wasn't engaged, but I think the fact that I was roped in for the middle act only to be let down by the ending is what's having me walk away from this one with a sour taste in my mouth. And I did go through quite the journey on this one: my attitude towards the protagonist went from dislike in the beginning to genuine concern for her well-being at the end, but the twist that I went out of my way to avoid didn't land for me and made me feel like my time was wasted. Never something you want out of a book.
Without giving too much away, I'm never a fan of media that basically posits a message like "Isn't mental illness ~scary?~ Wouldn't it be terrible if you were ~crazy?~" Like yeah, …
This was a swing and a miss for me.
Not to say that I wasn't engaged, but I think the fact that I was roped in for the middle act only to be let down by the ending is what's having me walk away from this one with a sour taste in my mouth. And I did go through quite the journey on this one: my attitude towards the protagonist went from dislike in the beginning to genuine concern for her well-being at the end, but the twist that I went out of my way to avoid didn't land for me and made me feel like my time was wasted. Never something you want out of a book.
Without giving too much away, I'm never a fan of media that basically posits a message like "Isn't mental illness ~scary?~ Wouldn't it be terrible if you were ~crazy?~" Like yeah, of course it would be, but it also seems mean-spirited and cheap to even go there with a premise. I figured out what was going to happen around maybe 70% through the book and convinced myself that surely that wouldn't be the twist ending, only to be sadly proven right.
Also not crazy about books that lend themselves to being read more than once to 'really' get it. I know that can be rewarding to some people, but I'm not one of them.
Simply put, I'm not sure that this was a story that needed to be told.
franksbooks reviewed I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Review of "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
There was a point about 70% of the way through when you were pretty much told what was happening. Up until then it was sort of intriguing, but after that it became kind of tedious and predictable.
Sandra reviewed I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Review of "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Eh, I don't know about this one.
It started out good, then got kind of kooky. It didn't really work for me. The ending seemed rushed. I think this could have been better had the author worked at it. But idk, it seemed sloppy; events didn't seem to flow organically. Like driving down a long bumpy dirt road, in a SNOWSTORM to throw away some DQ drink cups? I mean, come on. I know you needed to move the plot forward but this just seemed lazy. It takes you out of the story when characters suddenly do inexplicable, unbelievable things just to service the plot. This is just one example.
It was ok. It gets one extra star because it WAS creepy and unsettling in some parts. It's short. It's worth a read.
DaveNash3 reviewed I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Review of "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" on 'Storygraph'
1 star
The first 60-70 pages get boring, I get that there is the big psychological thriller in the second half of the book and it's a little Blair Witch but it was just a tough read. Maybe the movie/audio book would be boring. The first part made me want to either skip ahead or end things, the reader shouldn't feel that way.
Someone with multiple personalities could be a lot a fun at least in the first half. I recently read Raise High the Roof beam, Carpenter about 5 people stuck in a car. Salinger was able to jump around and make it more interesting.
