The Best Cliffhanger Endings of the Past 15 Years
Here
they are—the books that left us breathless in the last 50 pages. Some
are traditional thrillers, some whodunits and some roller-coaster novels. Which ones have you read?
By Dawn Raffel
15 of 17
One Day
By David Nicholls
437 pages;
Vintage
The
Premise: This star-crossed love story captures
the same day, July 15, through a series of years spanning 1988 to 2007. We see Emma and Dexter move out
of their student days and on to false
starts of
adulthood, a hot-and-then-not career (Dexter), a crummy job followed by success
(Emma) and, of course, romances with the wrong people. You think you know where
this is headed, but you don't...
Why the Ending Is a Stunner: There's a sucker punch that seems
like it must surely mark the finish. But in this novel, time, like memory, has
a way of circling
back.
— Dawn Raffel
Published 11/16/2015
