The God of Endings

I have struggled with this book review for a while now. Never has a book touched me like this. It’s a love hate. I feel like it should be read by high school or college literature classes. This is unlike anything I’ve read. I love any kind of vampire tale. But after this, I no longer want to be one lol. It’s a serious book. Collette had no choice. She had died from an illness when very young and was turned. After growing up, she runs a preschool from her home. She is older than I don’t know what. I couldn’t get enough of this book but all the time thought I’m not even half way?! It’s so long. At times it became tedious. I think if it had been half the length it would be 5 stars. Because we were looking at her life and alternating each chapter between the present and her past. She lived through wars and watched people she loved grow old and die. After the second half it was so depressing I had to read something else. Make sure you’re in the mood for this. It’s very poetic. But the part that became horror was something if I’d known I wouldn’t have read it. Little warning: animal cruelty. But I can see how if it were real life, it would happen. There was also a shocking part. That really threw cold water on my sexy vampire wannabe. It really makes you think. Also, if I’d known how it ended, I wouldn’t have read it. I DO like the decision she made, but what happened to cause it was something I don’t like to read about. I work in a hospital and see enough sadness and death. No one wants to see it like this. There’s one person in the book I wish she would’ve killed slowly. I’ll let you decide which one. But after it was such a long book and had such a buildup, it pretty much just ended in a chapter that was quick and a pretty much flat ending. I was like, ‘That’s all?!’ And to happen on Christmas! Not sure if this will have a second book after this. But the main thing and also the reason for the title, we never really saw. The mythical part about it. I get the meaning of what she learned and that makes sense. But seems like that all fell away fast. I just wish it would’ve been more dramatic. I’d also like to read about the life she was choosing at the end. To hear more about others like her that we met. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher/author

A phenomenal story and engrossing from start to finish. I’d buy this book twice if I could.