 So endings we all we all know about them and a lot of people like to complain about them especially when it comes to TV shows for some reason like Rarely will a TV show end in a way where people don't whine about it I I don't know why that is but you know endings are kind of hard to get right I'll admit that whether we're talking books movies anything else and even when it's bad Usually that doesn't bother me Because usually even when it's bad It doesn't really affect the journey that we took to get there You know I enjoyed everything that I read up until that point and then it's like oh the finish line They kind of stumbled but eh whatever that doesn't change it too much, but that's not always the case sometimes Sometimes the ending of something is so bad that it actually does negatively affect everything that came before it Sometimes it's so bad that it actually is really annoying. You know, it's not just the bad guys lose and the good guys win it's something really Stupid or something that contradicts things that came earlier or just a million little things that could go wrong and So today I'm here to talk about the ten worst endings to books. I have ever come across in my life now quick Quick explanation these are endings to series or endings to standalone books Like so I'm not gonna be talking about how oh the ending of order of the Phoenix was really bad Like that's not gonna be on this list because the ending of order of the Phoenix is not the end of the Harry Potter saga You know it like there's still more after that so it's not really the ending Anyways, I think you get the point of these top ten lists by now. Let's let's get going. This is the introduction song It's not very good, but it's not too long starting off at number ten. We have fallen so I Already did a whole long long review of this book series and if you've seen that You should probably remember why the ending was bad so the basic concept is that we have this main girl Lucinda who Is cursed with reincarnation and she's in love with an angel. So basically once every 17 years she will be born grow up meet Daniel the angel's name and then she'll die horribly and They can never be together and the cycle starts over again. You know, that's that's their curse They were cursed by God himself to be in the situation and in the final book you learn that it was because During the conflict between God and Lucifer they Refused to take sides, you know, they said, you know, we love each other. We're not gonna get into a fight with you guys We're just we're staying away from that also because Lucinda is secretly an angel, which was that was dumb as well But we're not we're not gonna get into that and so they finally get to the climactic end Thing where like Lucifer's about to destroy the world and Lucinda goes up to and she's like hey you shouldn't destroy the world and he's like no I'm going to and she's like no you shouldn't you can't and Like they can't fight him or stop him any way and then God just comes out of nowhere And he's like all right. I saved the day I stopped Lucifer from destroying the world and then he looks at Lucent Daniel He's like, okay, you you've had a couple thousand years to decide like who you gonna side with and again They say we're not siding with either of you. We're we love each other too much and So in addition to just being an absolute It's like someone heard deus ex machina and thought it was a compliment It's it's not like God himself literally comes out and just boom Okay, I saved the day so it makes all of their all of their suffering and all of their Work up until that point seemed really pointless and then they still won't choose any sides But they still get a happy ending because God says, okay, you know what fine I will take away your immortality from both of you and you can be reborn and meet each other one last time but you're gonna live and die just like humans and Lucinda and Daniel are like, okay, that's fine And then the epilogue is just them 17 years later when they first meet and all their angel friends are watching them going You know what? I'm glad they finally got to do this and The thing is I think the epilogue is cute I think at least the idea of them losing immortality but getting to Finally reincarnate and be together because that's all they've ever wanted. I think that's a cute idea In fact, I would say this Would would be a cute ending if they had to work for it in any way and that's the thing that it really comes to they didn't have to work for this and so It feels unsatisfying when they find they get it and the thing is there is a spin-off book Which actually takes place after the final fallen book or final fallen book and it's about a different character And I'm not gonna get into the whole plot of that one But it ends with a whole bunch of demons deciding hey, we're gonna overthrow Lucifer now Let's go do that and he's like, okay. Sure. I hate Lucifer. He tried to kill me and my girlfriend Let's let's go do that and just that that's the end It doesn't end with them overthrowing him and saying yeah, the day is saved now No, it says let's go overthrow him and that's the end which is just a giant middle finger to anyone who cared All right, I'm cheating a little bit with number nine, but I gotta say it it is a song of ice and fire and Okay, the thing is I'm not talking about the ending of the show here Whatever your thoughts on that it is It's the show. It's different from the books because The final two books have not been written yet We're never going to get an ending like if you it's been ten years if you think that the winds of winter is ever going to come out at this point then I Wish I had the same kind of hope and belief that that you do but it's just not going to happen And even if it somehow does We aren't going to have another 15 or 16 years for George double R Martin to write a dream of spring Like it's it's just not ever going to happen. We're never going to find out exactly how things were going to wrap up and Granted the show ended at least in broad strokes the same way that the books were planned on ending You know, I'm sure that in the books ending if it ever came we would still get Daenerys finally succumbing to her tyrannical tendencies and killing a bunch of innocent people and then someone would have to kill her to save the day and I'm sure we would most likely still end with Bran as king of Westeros, maybe not necessarily Bran, but you know someone who was you know Elected as it were and they would probably still set up a system where they aside. Okay, you know what? We're not gonna have a hereditary monarchy anymore. We're gonna have an elected one, which is an improvement on things but We'll never know for certain, you know, like the fine details will we'll never get to see those You know, we'll never find out if John actually survives the assassination attempt at the wall Or if he's brought back the way he was in the show. We'll never we'll never find that out We'll never see Ramsey Bolton get his comeuppance. We will never Find out what's going on with Lady Stoneheart, which I'm actually okay with because I think that's a dumb Plot point it people complained about her not being in the show But I'm just like, well, what was the point of her being in the books? You know it if anything it detracts from the red wedding, but you know, that's that's not the point Basically, we're never gonna learn about any of these hanging plot threads we're never gonna find out what happens to the characters we like or what happens in this world that we're into and That just kind of sucks, you know, so this one's cheating a bit But yeah, the fact that we're never gonna get an ending to this makes it a bad ending Number eight is one that I've talked about in the past. It is Island in the Sea of Time now this one the plot to this one is At the time I read it. It was unique to me. I didn't realize that there were actually a Lot that have a similar idea, but it's basically The island of Nantucket in Massachusetts undergoes some sort of weird mass time travel events So the whole island and its population gets sent back in time to 1250 BCE Which is right in the middle of the Bronze Age and then with all their new technology and everything They have to just stop and say okay, let's survive now but The big thing is that one of their own Goes off on his own and decides he wants to conquer stuff. He wants to be a ruler. So he forms his own empire in Greek it's centered in Greece, but it does expand out into other places and One day those two things are gonna have to fight each other And that's mostly what the second and third books in the series are about and the war up until near the end Is pretty satisfying, but then at the end The bad guy just gets poisoned by some of his underlings You know him and most of his lieutenants all get poisoned so his empire falls apart and the good guys win the war and That that's kind of it. So It's just a really quick Unsatisfying ending where we don't get much of a climax You know, we don't have any sort of climactic battle or climactic Political maneuver which forces him into a corner and he can no longer fight. He has to surrender It doesn't force him out of power or anything like that. It's just Hey, suddenly these people who were barely mentioned earlier are gonna be on the good guy's side And then they bam they killed a bad guy for you. Everything's good now. Let's let's get on to Farming and shit. I guess I don't know and That's bad enough, but the real reason it's on this list is that it can't really commit See the thing is it has It feels like it wants to be a solid ending there But then it also Sprinkles in a bunch of little cliffhangers that make it feel like oh, okay, they were planning on making sequels after this and So it can't commit like it has one of the bad guys daughters go off with some of his final loyalists Far away into the Eurasian step I believe is where they were originally headed and it's implied like okay They're gonna build up a new kingdom and then they're gonna come back and fight people and then there's also This one guy who kind of went off on his own down into Nubia and he's building his own kingdom there and specifically He's doing it because he wants to make sure that Black people don't get like colonized and enslaved and stuff the way they often were in the real world Which is kind of an admirable goal. I suppose but they don't really focus on that storyline I think he gets literally one chapter where we see him going around building stuff And then he's barely even mentioned after that which is Unsatisfying and there's two or three more just like that. It's like all these little Ideas which like could have been good for sequels, but we're never exploring them And so this this book just couldn't commit it couldn't decide if it even wanted to be an ending or not And so for that reason it's one of the worst I've ever come across number seven. This is why I hate you by Onision, so If you're familiar with Onision's books, this shouldn't surprise you like the first one stones to Abigail Is the best one? It's still terrible But it's all about you know, just a regular kid who is in school And then he goes around and he does stuff and there's a school shooting and he makes friends. It's it's not good Okay, by any means it's it's not a good book. It's Terrible, but then we run into this is why I hate you which is just about I Don't know it's a violent teenager with daddy issues who joins the Air Force and then there's even less of a plot in this one like he He gets two girlfriends and they enter into a polyamorous Relationship and then he is also going around being super violent Walling the Air Force and still avoiding getting in trouble for it Like he's gouging out people's eyes and breaking ankles for really no reason dudes a crazy psycho absolute psycho And so when we get to the end, it's not like there's any build-up to our climax or anything but he still tried to Greg still tried to make a climax and it's Okay, so basically he gouges out a guy's eye the guys mad at him So he lures Greg away and then him and some of his friends Break into the apartment where his girlfriends are and then they're about to rape them as revenge for Greg doing stuff and then Greg comes in and he gets angry and he kills them all but at the last second the last one kills him And then the final chapter is one of his girlfriends saying how she finished off his journal Which is not a thing that human beings do Like that's that's just a shitty weird writing trick to begin with I'm not sure why he thought that was a good idea, but okay, and then they also explain how Oh, Greg was just such a good person. He was so Amazing. It's so terrible that people couldn't see how good he was because he was just the best I loved the way he was a narcissist who violently attacked anyone who mildly inconvenienced him And then also it's revealed that his dad molested him as a child So it gives him an excuse for being a terrible person But at the same time he didn't remember his dad molesting him as a child So it doesn't actually make sense that he did Look, there's a lot of problems here and The fact that Greg is clearly just making up this bizarre scenario Where this clearly terrible person Gets to Be the hero and be the good guy and he gets to point at him and say ha look at that everyone You see you thought he was terrible, but he was actually a good guy all along He's better than all of you and it's clear that he's just trying to insert himself into the story because Onision's a fucking narcissist, but it's uh, that's uh Do that that's a whole can of worms. I don't want to get into but and it's just using rape and molesting of children as a Plot device and he's not doing it well, which is just I don't know the whole thing leaves a nasty taste in my mouth and As I said, this book doesn't really have anything of a story So this climax to it was immensely unsatisfying And that's uh, that's about it. You know, this is why I hate you. It's terrible. Number six twilight So it's been quite a long time now So I think most of us are familiar with the ending of the breaking dawn movie like There's that whole big final battle between the vampires and the other vampires and some werewolves are there And it's actually a cool moment Weirdly enough, it's like one of the only moments in twilight where everything is really cool You know people are getting their heads ripped off people are getting set on fire. It's it's neat But then it's revealed that oh It was a vision of the future like this is what happened if you will fight us So don't do it. And then the bad guys are just like, okay, and then they leave so that's unsatisfying and I don't like the ending of the movie But I think the ending of the book is worse in a weird way because at least in the movie we got that little Uh bit of something before it got taken away from us in the books. It is The bad guys the volturi want to come in And they're planning on killing Bella and her whole family because they think that they created a vampire child Which is a no-no because vampire children tend to cause a lot of chaos. It's a it's a whole thing Uh, and they know that oh, no, it's not a vampire child She's actually a half vampire And so they bring in a bunch of allies and everything that they can use to fight if they have to but also just as witnesses So they they can see oh, okay, this isn't a vampire child And then you know the volturi come in with their whole force and keep in mind the volturi are Kind of sort of tyrants, you know, they've been ruling over the vampire underworld for Thousands of years and they can and they do kill people all the time over it Uh, and then so this climax is Basically a glorified courtroom scene where they're like, okay, I think this is a vampire child. It's not actually Here's our evidence. Well, I still think she is well, it's not here's more evidence I still think here's more evidence and it's just this kind of obnoxious back and forth and then It gets to the point where the battle starts in the movie But in the books, it's just like, okay, we'll leave now And the thing is This is like there one chance to defeat the volturi, you know, it's it's hinted at and built up that they are going to Have to deal with them at some point in the earlier books And so I was reading this thinking, okay, this is it. This is it. Here we go But we never get anything and you know, this is their This is their one real chance with all their allies here and everything that they could do something but they they don't because Bella and them just don't care about this if it doesn't affect them personally You know until it affects them and their family, they aren't gonna try and save the world which Makes them all seem like a bunch of cunts uh Yeah, no, that's about it. It makes them all seem like a bunch of cunts and The thing is twilight is just a story about a girl meeting a vampire falling in love becoming a vampire and then living happily ever after I get that But for a little while this book pretended to be something else, you know It pretended to be something like okay, we're gonna have an actual Battle with some stakes and people will have to make sacrifices and they'll have to work to earn their happy ending But in the end we didn't actually get that so it was pretending to be something It wasn't and then it pulls the rug right out from under us and so For that reason even though I think that like the twilight books, they're they're bad. Don't get me wrong I don't think they're good by most metrics But I also generally think that people who say like they're the worst things ever it destroyed civilization. It melts of my brain That that's kind of stupid because they're not really that bad But when we get to the ending of this like yes, this is one of the worst endings I've ever come across and I will fully agree with you guys that at least this part of the books is mind meltingly awful Number five is one that I have talked about before it is house of night. The thing about house of night is that while I spent I think the video is almost two hours long And I spent that whole time talking about the series, but I kind of glossed over the second half of the series Because well partially because it would have gotten a little repetitive to go over every detail But also partially because I was just tired and I wanted to be done with things And if I describe like in broad strokes the ending It might sound passable You know, it's basically just the villain nefarate is her name Finally attacks with like an undead army and shit and she's gonna destroy Tulsa, Oklahoma And then she's gonna go on and conquer the whole world and it's gonna be It is gonna be terrible and all that stuff and then the heroes have to work together They have to fight Excuse me. They have to fight off all her minions and then they fight nefarate herself And eventually they defeat her and that a couple of them die along the way But you know, they died fighting for a good cause and they really had to work at it. So It it sounds fine. It sounds like a pretty standard good guys win bad guys lose story, but For a couple of reasons It's much worse Then it sounds like for starters the way they defeat nefarate is with A magical circle, which is where you know, they all come together and link their powers and then Using those powers they can do stuff that's That they couldn't do individually And the thing is that almost every book in the series ends with them Using some sort of magic circle to cast some sort of spell to defeat the bad guys It's only temporary in most of them, but in this one, it's just permanent So and keep in mind there are 12 books in this series It's not like they did this two or three times before and now it's just getting a little repetitive No, they've done it like 10 times like 10 of the books and in basically this exact same way up until this point And then So it's just unsatisfying to see the same thing done over and over and over and over And the second big reason is that after Oh, man I'm trying to think of a way to explain this without getting into all of the weird details about the series But basically after they defeat the villain They get rewarded and the reward for the main character zoe is that she gets to be The head of the house of night in tulsa and one of her friends gets to be head of the other house of night Which is in the sewers. I'm not explaining that it would take too long now number one Zoey is really really young so it's kind of stupid that she's in charge here and honestly Zoey is the ultimate Mary sue, you know, like it's been up until this point She's been like touched by the vampire goddess She's gotten to speak personally with the vampire goddess. All of the boys are in love with her and making the kissy on her She has like super special magic powers that no one else has The vampire queen has decided that she will become queen after she dies Like all of this is Really really stupid and just it's dumb. I hate seeing Mary sews get everything they want but It also weirdly enough her becoming the head of the house of night feels Like a small reward for everything Like, you know, if they had, you know, saved the whole world And then zoe became vampire queen It would still be really dumb, but at least it would Fit with the tone of the rest of this But instead she's just the head of this one house of night It's like if you saved the world and everyone said congratulations Now you get to be a city council member in diluth minnesota. It's like It feels weird because Yeah, I'll admit in this series the characters did have to, you know, work and struggle and sacrifice to get their happy ending But their happy ending then feels weirdly anti-climactic, I suppose like their reward is just so small. So it feels Dumb it feels even dumber than the rest of the series does and that's kind of impressive And then the third reason is much smaller, but it's basically just zoe Has this one one of the dudes who is in her orbit and who she constantly treats like shit throughout the entire series He dies earlier on and then he gets brought back in the new body And then he dies again in this and it's treated as like well It sucks that he died, but he sacrificed himself for a good cause and it just annoys me because zoe has done So many terrible things to him over the course of this and he he never gets his happy ending So yeah, basically all of that together. It's very unsatisfying very anti-climactic. It's stupid and I don't know it's It's difficult to explain all the ways in which I hate house of night without going into all the small details And we'd be here for hours. So yeah, this one Even though it has some aspects which could be worse It deserves to be in the bottom half of this list number four the young world so Okay, I've talked about this one before and the premise sounds fine And I think the first book is actually really good Or not really good, but it's it's enjoyable enough Basically, there was this pandemic outbreak disease whatever you want to call it That went around and it killed all of the adults and it killed all the young children The only people that survived were people that were in puberty. So basically from the ages of like 12 or 13 to around the ages of 18 and The thing is they they still die after they exit puberty. So not long after they turn 18 and their hormones start Decreasing the virus hits them and they die and so it seems like oh the world is going to end We're all fucked But there is this one person in new york who thinks that they know how to get a cure So they decide to go on a journey to see if they can do that and The first book is just about that and it's enjoyable enough. It has issues, but I liked it But then the second book comes around and it's revealed that Only the americas got hit by the virus north and south america They're the only ones that got hit by it and everyone there died except for the kids The rest of the world is still chugging along doing its thing and they think everybody there died and Well that that's stupid enough on its own But then the heroes like go back to new york And because they do manage to find a cure basically, uh, you just need some of the blood from Main character dude and then as he gives it to people they get cured and then their blood also works as a cure and You know you you can pass it on basically And they they get there and then there's also like a nuclear Weapon firing thing which another bad guy gets his hands on and he threatens to Shoot it and then they uh managed to defeat him and it's I mean the climax is kind of cool. I suppose But then it turns out that the rebel guys who helped them get into new york and helped them find the cure in the first place Actually released the virus in the rest of the world. So A whole lot of people are gonna die, but it's treated like oh, that's okay. We'll just give them the cure Yeah, but uh, they they won't be able to just kill us all and take over this territory They they need us. They need our blood and all that Okay, um Here's the thing I found myself rooting for the authoritarian governments that were trying to kill all the kids in north and south america So that they could recolonize without anybody getting infected I I was on their side in this because the thing is it if you release that disease and it Infects a whole bunch of people people are going to die. There's no way you can get the cure to all of them in time Like you can just look at the covid vaccine roll out for proof of that Like there's places that have handled it badly places that have handled it pretty well And but nowhere has done it perfectly. There's nowhere where everybody has gotten vaccinated and so Even if this cure works in 100 of cases It's not going to get to everybody in time. There's no way you could get it to the whole world in time So basically the good guys Went off and killed Millions more people possibly billions Of people and we're supposed to cheer for them Like oh, they stopped the other bad guy from launching the nukes like okay That saved some lives, but then you killed all these people. So I think it kind of balances out, you know, you're You're all terrible people and I hate you so While this ending is in many ways done. Well, you know, it does have like an actual climax Which is built up to and there's some fun action there and yada yada, but Despite all of that I hate the ending Because it makes me want it tries to make me side with some of the most horrible people in human history number three is the fifth wave, so This is another one i've talked about at length. I I don't know man. It's just It starts off good, you know, it starts off as Aliens come and attack the world vast majority of the human population dies Uh main character girl gets separated from her younger brother. So she decides to set off and go find him That sounds pretty good and it's focused enough that the beginning of this story works well You know, it is actually a pretty solid opener But then once they're reunited, they don't have any grand plans after that. They aren't going. Okay. Let's kill all the aliens They aren't thinking let's save the world They're just thinking let's stay away from these guys and survive Which makes the whole series feel kind of aimless for a long time, uh and then we get to the last book and it's just kind of Brought to our attention that hey aliens are gonna drop bombs on a bunch of The remaining cities all over the world and they're gonna kill most of the remaining human population not all of them But most of them Why are they doing this? I don't know. We never actually get a solid reason for why the aliens are doing what they do Nor do we ever directly interact with the aliens all we interact with are their proxies on earth Okay, and then they go through this whole rigmarole and main character girl accidentally downloads like 10,000 other Mem personalities into her head So she has all these other people would start blending with her and she's like, whoa, this is crazy Okay, I gotta go save the day now because all of a sudden she wants to save the day That that's just what she does and she grabs a bomb goes up to the alien ship and before they get the chance to launch Their load on earth She blows it up and destroys everything there and so the aliens are gone and then the few remaining humans can rebuild uh Okay That just comes completely out of nowhere is the main thing. This was not built up towards You know the main character's girl goal. None of the main character's goal was to save the world they were just trying to survive so Them suddenly deciding that they want to save the world Feels out of place. It feels out of character and I don't know. It's it's just odd and then we get the real main character girl cassie I mentioned in my review of it that I don't think she's a mary sue. She has elements of being a mary sue but she she skirts the line sometimes but she never crosses that line and The fact that she has to nobly sacrifice herself at the end of the story Definitely puts a lot of uh Credence to mary sue idea like I still don't think she is one but Yeah, having your main character die or sacrifice themselves at the end of a story That's a delicate line to walk because if you do it wrong then it just makes it feel like Oh, everyone misses them because they were so good They they gave up everything for the rest of us because they were just such good cool guys It's like it's like the ending of this is why I hate you all over again. You know what I mean? And so it comes out of nowhere Uh, the main characters don't really have to work that hard for it. Um Admittedly they do sacrifice some things like a couple of people die along the way but uh I don't remember any of their names. So who gives a shit? And then cassie main character girl also dies, but I mean, I wasn't that attached to her and I kind of went over the whole Uh, mary su thing. I don't I don't know. I could probably sit here and talk about that a lot longer But I just I don't want to man. This this was a terrible ending for a couple of reasons and It just felt really unsatisfying Because looking back at it, I can see places where the series could have uh Made a different turn or did something slightly differently and it would have been better It wouldn't have been great necessarily I don't think but it would have been better and it could have led to A better ending or even an ending that's very similar to this one and it would have just felt more satisfying But it didn't it was very unsatisfying and I'm honestly kind of surprised. I even remember it because It just feels so bleh number two Everworld so this is another one Where it's basically no ending see this was written by k a applegate who also wrote the animorphs books And these were basically about some kids who got transported to this place called everworld, which was Basically a place where all the legends and mythologies of earth exist simultaneously So we have egyptian gods, norse gods, etc But then there's also this guy called ka honor who has Recently entered it from a different dimension altogether and he's the eater of gods and the other gods fear him because he can Well, he can eat them And so that's actually why they brought the kids into the world They were they brought one of them senna on purpose But then the others just kind of got caught up in it And most of the series is just them tracking down senna and trying to find a way for them to uh go back home and It's good up until Really it's good all the way through up until like the last two pages of the last book because The second to last book they actually kill senna like she brings in more people from earth who are supposed to be like her personal army, but uh They kill her and so they're suddenly leaderless and then They decide in the last book like okay We have the sennaites who are going around causing trouble and we have ka honor Who's gonna come in and fuck shit up if we don't unite everybody? So that's what we're gonna do we're gonna build up an alliance of gods and others and just bring everyone together and hopefully we can Defeat this great evil and by this point they accept that like yeah, they're never going home and So the last book is mostly about them trying to rescue thor and boulder who are imprisoned in the underworld And then they go down there and as i'm reading this i was thinking wow, they're gonna wrap all this up in 50 pages That's crazy. They're gonna wrap all this up in 20 pages. That's crazy And then it ends with them rescuing thor and balder and they're like okay We're gonna build our alliance now and then that's it. That's the end We never find out what happens next and Man I do i even need to go into much more detail about that. It's like it's no ending You know like if we had just one more book after this or maybe two because they're not that long We could have had you know a final conflict and An actual ending a satisfying conclusion But we don't have that. It's just like yep use your imagination. I guess and so That it actually made me angry when I first read that so Yeah, fuck it ever worlds at number two and number one The worst ending to a book that I've ever read in my life Is reapers creek by onision Just like this is why I hate you if you're familiar with this book, you know exactly exactly Why I hate this so the the premise of this one is basically just that there's a kid who Starts developing special powers and then discovers that he is a god And then he goes and does god-like things and like he fights other gods and stuff and the last There's like no plot to this one whatsoever. It has The it'll oh man. How do I even go into this the book will in little chunks have separate stories I suppose or mostly separate stories that all follow this one same guy like it'll have Oh, okay. He's just a kid in a dysfunctional family and they'll have oh, okay He's being abused by a pedophile and it has oh, okay There's dead bodies that keep appearing in a creek behind him But the last little chunk of the book like the climax such as it were is Where he's fully built up all his god-like powers and then he gets Dragged out into space by the spirit of death And he's like hey, I'm just a piece of another god and we are all gonna kill you now But then the main character greg just sort of snaps his fingers and that god's dead Then he tracks down the other god. We never find out how he does this He just kind of does and then he basically just snaps his fingers other guys dead And a god is also kind of his father. I I think it's not explained well And then he eventually tracks it down to this god of gods named call who He did bad things because he wanted his daughter back because his daughter was a god But she's dead now and it's impossible to bring a dead god back to life And then dan Daniel slash greg the character's name in the book is daniel But it's clearly just a self-insert for greg and they actually refer to him as greg several times in the book. It's It's horrible. Uh, but then yeah, greg just sort of snaps his fingers and cool The other god is back and the other god is also his mom somehow And she never gets a name Which is dumb now in addition to this just being the easiest most Unsatisfying conclusion of all time like somehow worse than fallen It uh, it gets kind of worse because Greg and his mother like remake the world in their image and it's their idea of like a utopia But they just straight up destroy all cultures and artworks and everything that they find pointless or that they think are bad So they're kind of ruling over the earth with an iron fist. It's a tyrannical regime. It's treated as a good thing But but It's not like you don't even really need to read between the lines that much You just have to read exactly what's going on and think whoa, this is This sounds horrible. Why would anyone like this because well Greg's ideal world is one where he gets to rule over other people like a god and on top of that All of the other little chunks throughout the book all the other little Storylines such as it were Individually they all sound kind of okay at least as a premise obviously you would have to have someone other than omision write them because They're he's he's not a good writer at by any stretch But the thing is they all sound at least kind of fine on the surface, but then Once they none of them have a good conclusion either, you know, it's not like here's a short story with its own beginning middle end And then here's another one with its own beginning middle end It's just sort of here's something with a beginning and a middle and then we'll just kind of forget about it And then here's something else with a beginning and middle and then we'll forget about it So like we have the plot line where main character lives in a dysfunctional family and he tries to escape that by uh entering an inappropriate relationship with an older girl and that just never really gets concluded It's just it's treated as though they have some real romance even though she's an actual fucking pedophile At the end it's like, okay, we're together now and we're gonna have kids and stuff and that's just gross And then there's another plot line where it's like, oh dead bodies keep appearing in the creek Behind my house. I wonder what's going on with that and it Never really gets a satisfying conclusion. That's like, oh, I keep getting abducted by aliens every night By the way, if you haven't read the book I know that seems like I'm just putting that in and it feels very out of place It feels pretty out of place when you read it too But Yeah, the alien plot line doesn't get a real satisfying conclusion. He just goes to their planet as a god and he's like, hey Be nice to me, bro, or I'll kill you and so all it's like multiple Um crappy endings or just no endings all squeezed into one tiny book. This is not a long book either. It's like I mean most copies when he sells them are like 190 pages, but they're all double spaced so less than 100 pages really is what the this should be and So it's barely a novella is what i'm getting at and I don't know. What else do I even need to say? It's like another book that Tries to get me to side with someone who's clearly the bad guy and he was a crazy narcissist but then He's he's not so it's not a satisfying ending It's not like a fun action-packed ending because none of this was built up to and the climax is Not fun or satisfying in any way I I don't know man. Just Reaper's Creek is the worst book I or the worst ending to a book I've ever read I wouldn't call it the worst book I've ever read just because it is funny going through it And also because I kind of knew what I was getting into when I read it, but that's I don't know That's a whole thing But yeah, it's it's a terrible ending if you can think of a book that has or book series that has a worse ending than this I I kind of doubt it exists, but I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on that and that's I don't know. That's all take care. Bye Special thanks to all the names you see here. 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