Brett Hodnett reviewed I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Loved it
4 stars
Great book. Creepy and engaging.
Paperback, 208 pages
English language
Published Aug. 26, 2020 by Text Publishing Company.
4 stars
(18 reviews)
I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.
Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”
And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here.
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.
