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Happy Tuesday y’all! This week’s topic is a freebie so I decided to go through the older topics and found one from 2013, prior to starting the blog that I wanted to have fun with. The topic was “Top Ten Endings That Left Me With My Mouth Hanging Open.” There have been several books recently that left me feeling mind-blown. So here are my top ten books that left my jaw on the floor and that I may or may not have thrown my Kindle/book down upon finishing 😉 As always these are in no particular order, covers link to Amazon (affiliate)/Goodreads, title links to review. PS…I’ll do my absolute best to NOT spoil the books 😀
Top Ten Mind-Blowing Endings
Saven: Disclosure by Siobhan Davis: During the last chapter of this book, I was completely lost! I couldn’t help wondering if I was even reading the same book. A switch flipped and all heck broke loose. Even now, after reading the rest of the series, this one still shocks me!
The Gender Game by Bella Forrest: The ending to this one I didn’t see coming at all. I just had this foreboding feeling during the last few chapters and then the ending happened! It was such a shocker and SO good that I bought the rest of the series and am currently reading it 😀
The Dark King by CJ Abedi: I may have tossed my poor Kindle at the ending of this one. The series is amazing and you root for the characters and just when you think they are in the clear, the author throws a wrench in the plans and you are left with a massive cliffhanger.
The Queen of Traitors by Laura Thalassa: While this ending shocked me, I couldn’t help but shake my head. Does Montes never learn?! He should have known better….but it’s all good. It comes back to bite him in the rear in the third book 😉
Strain of Resistance by Michelle Bryan: This book is one shock after another, but that ending….OMG!!!! I think I may have died. It ends appropriately, setting up the next series and I think “Yay! No cliffhanger….oh wait there’s more….” Yeah that epilogue is killer peeps!
The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski: Usually I’m not much of a fan for the second books in trilogies. Usually they are bridge books setting up the ending with not much happening. This one was a pleasant surprise. I loved it! But that ending had me in tears. Kestrel and Arin and then all the spying….it was too much! And did I mention the ending?!
Broken Prince by Erin Watt: This whole series is one shock after another, but the ending to the second book had me scraping my jaw off the floor. It was an awful ending!!!! Especially since I had to anxiously wait to find out what was going to happen to the characters.
Curse of the Sphinx by Raye Wagner: Dramatic irony at its finest peeps. We knew the ending. We knew, we were screaming in our heads at Hope. Athan was a mystery and his background even more so but I was still screaming at Hope and then I was like maybe not and then I was screaming at her again. That ending….Even though I immediately picked up book two, it was killer.
Paper Dolls by Hanna Peach: This author is the queen of romantic suspense. I had no clue what was coming at the end of this book. I had guessed different scenarios for how the book was going to play out and I was wrong on all counts. Seriously I can say nothing about this book other than you HAVE to read it.
Dead of Winter by Kresley Cole: Every book in the Arcana Chronicles has ended with a massive cliffhanger. BUT this one slayed me. I was so shocked. I was listening to the book on a road trip. I stopped the recording and rewound it several times to be sure I heard the ending correctly. I’m still reeling….I really need to read book 4!!!
Your turn! What books shocked you at the end? Share below
I am now very intrigued by Paper Dolls. I’ll have to add it to my TBR!
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Oh boy… The Winner trilogy is on my TBR. What have I gotten myself into?! *laughs*
At least they are all out and you can binge read them. That’s what I did. I don’t know what I’d have done if I had to wait a year…
OMG! Why did I click your link!??? This is a trap to get us to add more books in our TBR lists! hahahaha Look at those covers. I want all the books from your top row! I am going to Goodreads now to check out their series!|
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Haha!!! Well I didn’t intend to trap you but these are good books 😉
I absolutely love books with shocking or mind-blowing endings and great plottwists so this is a really interesting topic for me!
Have you read Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series already? The last book of the first trilogy definitely blew my mind!
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I haven’t! But now I’m intrigued. Going to have to check it out 🙂
ooh nice topic choice! Going to have to remember this one for the next freebie! LOL! And ooomg!! Dead of Winter killed me!!! And the wait for Arcana Rising was positively dreadful! I had to read that one as soon as I was able…which granted was nearly immediately after I accepted a review copy! LOL! It was sooo good, but agh!!! That ending just about killed me too! LOL!
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What a great post:). Though right now I CANNOT add any more books to my TBR…
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What a good topic pick! I can immediately think of Regarding Anna being on my jaw-dropping list.