Review: Underdeveloped ending leaves readers feeling cheated
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2013
I liked this short story pretty well, in the beginning. I get it- the author gives this away to entice people to buy their other works, it's a 'sample', if you will. No problem. The issue I had with it? There's no explanation for what happens in the story. It ends in a bizzare way, with no explanation of why things took the turn they did. It felt like the author took great time and attention building up to it, then just kind of hurriedly finished it to get it done. Far more details were given about the barn door flapping in the wind and the history of the inheritance of the land than on how or why the daughter made the choice that she did. I wasn't left wanting to read more of this author's work, I was left irritated he expected the readers to just buy into an idea that lacked a basis to make it feasible. Abrupt, underdeveloped ending to a story that had potential.