Tell Me an Ending

Very interesting premise, but I just couldn't get into this book. I didn't find any of the characters or their accompanying stories interesting and they all just drug along very sluggishly. The only character I was really interested in was Noor. I felt like there was too much "fluff" in each character's chapters and it wasn't necessary to the plot and was, unfortunately, boring.

Only completed about 67% of the book before I decided to move on.

Wow. I literally could not put this book down. I was so invested in all of the characters stories and was swallowed up by the story. It gets really dark and sad, but also has moments of light and hope for the characters. I was very moved and haven’t been able to stop recommending this book to people.

The premise re: the ability to extract memories is intriguing enough (though perhaps a little half-baked), but ultimately this is a frustrating book in many ways. The disparate story lines never really coalesce into a satisfying whole. The quality of the writing is serviceable, but the philosophical implications of how memory is linked to identity are only superficially explored, while the narrative is neither propulsive nor compelling enough t...read more