Review: Has a "Sucked In/Just Kidding" Ending
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 10, 2011
I would've given this four stars had it not been for that epilogue. So the novella's downgraded to three.It's perfectly fine to give a character a life-threatening, inoperable illness. It makes ménage fiction less fantasy and more realistic. Adds some seriousness to the fun. All good.But in the epilogue, you can't just say the character's in remission. If you're going to have someone dying in earlier chapters, they should actually die - don't pull a "just kidding" move. Because it seems like the inoperable illness is just thrown in for plot. The story would be fine if two characters marry, and have fond thoughts of their dear dead friend.Or you can just say it's not entirely inoperable. That still makes the story serious without pulling a "sucked in" move, and it ends reasonably happily.So TRIPLE DARE has a good idea, but the execution really pisses me off. Inoperable illness is inoperable for a reason. Don't tell us something can't be done when it actually does get done by the time the epilogue comes around.Then again, I've never been an epilogue fan. I want a realistic ending, which is not necessarily a happy one.