Endings, Some Are Better Than Others

Eye of the Beholder by Jim Ellis. It has been a good story, evil doers brought to their just end, fair maiden saved from a fate worse than death, redemption for the noble hero, but for God's sake END IT! This book has 45 pages too many. I am at the point of skimming to just reach the end and I pray for no more twists, Ellis has strangled me with one too many twists. Makes me wish he had attended Michael Connelly's workshop Ending the Novel at Just the Right Time instead of Dostoevsky's workshop Let's Drag This Sucker Out Another Two Hundred Pages.

Ok, I got it out of my system. Ellis writes a good mystery and I will keep him on my list of must reads and I will prepare myself for slow endings.