It was great .... until the ending
934375
Another one of my finds on Amazon for free (and yes, it's still free now).

A good little story - zombies and a circus, how could you go wrong?  Check it out.  Interesting ending, but the VERY ending, eh, not so much, at least for me.
787431
I loved most of this book, sped through it, pages flying, totally wrapped up in the story, the characters.  But for me, it all fell apart at the end.  (SPOILER AHEAD)  Call me simplistic and unsophisticated, but in the end I want the good guys to win and the philandering jerks to get punished.  I yearned for the moment when Delia would see her husband for what he was (a two-timing cad) and walk off into the sunset a brave new woman, not the beaten down woman she becomes in Miller's book.  And the fact that Meri, who so casually destroyed Delia's life, winds up happy and fulfilled, and says she did what she did out of "love"----gaaaaaack!  It steams my beans.
Nevertheless, Miller's a terrific writer, and if you're a pomo kinda reader who doesn't mind an ending that makes you want to hurl yourself off a cliff, this book is for you.
2770828
Honestly the book was great! But the ending sucked. Gave me blue balls all the way lmao. Theres this big build up and it has a flat ending. It was funny and great throughout. I just wished the ending was better
1379586
I don't like writing negative reviews -- and I have to say I enjoyed this book right up until the last few pages. It was a good story and it kept moving (hence the two stars I gave it). Sure, some layout errors in Kindle, but that is common enough. However, the ending -- though totally surprising -- simply did not fit the facts of the story IMHO.

WARNING -- POSSIBLE PLOT SPOILER ALERT * * * *
The person who turned out to be the killer had only the lamest motivation, and really had every motivation imaginable NOT to commit the crime -- psychologically, relationally, emotionally, and even financially. Had a bright future that was unfolding before them, with a good support system, and other very accessible means to accomplish what they said their purpose/goal was. 'Nuff said.
1275180
I loved this book--up until the last chapter. It started out a perfectly beautiful little escapist story, filled with scrumptious images and a romance with life....The problem came when the author tried--exceedingly  heavyhandedly--to turn it into a life lesson. The reader is driven up  through luscious scenery to the top of a mountain, made spectator to a  breathtaking sunset, and then dropped off a cliff. If you do insist on  reading it, go back after you've finished and write a new ending.
3210876
I was really enjoying the first 90% of this book. It was great characters, great action, great bad guys, and a plot just outside predictable. Then when coming to the end, which should be easy for the author who wrote the rest of the book, it goes to pieces. I never remember being quite so upset by the way a book ended.
1333847
This movie was good, up until the end, the ending left a lot out.
4665378
Overall, this book was good.

Per usual the pacing and character development is rich, and Stephen King does a great job of telling a suspenseful story with a lot of different things going on.

I found myself enriched at select points unable to put the book down due to such rich backstory and character development.

The problem comes towards the last 20% of the book, especially the last 10%.  He goes so many different directions that there are loose ends that never get tied up, and the ending was terrible, just plain and simple terrible.

It would have been so much better if you never find out WHY the dome is there, or HOW it got there. Once this information is revealed, and mind you the conclusion to this story seems to be like the last 5 minutes of a movie, it ruins the book for me.  If the dome remained a mystery, I think this book could have been great (not "The Road" or "11/22/63" level), but still great.

Bottom line is this book just completely falls apart towards the end, and has left me just going "huh.....what happened" - and that's not a great impression sad to say
2680331
I think this movie was really great up until the end. The end just seemed rushed and overly dramatized. Like they were trying to push the Lord in right at the last minute and weren't really sure how they were going to go about doing it. It may have played out better if her grandmother had been mentioning the Lord the whole time. It just made it sound pushy and rushed the way they played it out at the end. I really loved the movie and thought everything was going great until the ending. I almost question the rush job they put on the grandmother passing away. It may have been better to give it a month or so after the girl had recovered for the grandmother to pass away.
30317
I loved the story except for the ending. I felt like the author just "dropped the ball."
3741146
I just finished this book, and I am not sure whether to give it three or four stars, so I will err on the side of charity. I really enjoyed it and was engaged by it... up until the last three chapters, from which my disappointment comes.

Overall, the characters were developed well and the writing was excellent. Robertson writes really well, giving the reader little tastes of what is coming that keep him engaged and wanting to read more. He uses great dialogue, his description and imagery are excellent, and his use of math was well done also. It was balanced because I think the non-mathematical reader would still be able to get through the math-heavy parts and enjoy them, and at the same time, readers who have a strong math background will appreciate his understanding of the issues. His characters are well-developed and engaging. You love Euler, you find Bernoulli intimidating and intriguing, you can understand the tension between Daniel and his father, etc.

But, as stated above, unfortunately, I was not impressed with the last three chapters. The pace of the novel quickens considerably there, which in itself is not a problem, but then the direction moves towards something I did not expect. And, granted, I am no genius or anything, so perhaps I should have seen it coming, but the beginning of the book makes a much bigger deal about the mysterious death of Jacob Bernoulli, while the end goes in a very different direction (I am being intentionally vague, so as not to give away too much). Furthermore, in the last three chapters there seem to be two providential interventions by God, to which I am not opposed for I am Christian who agrees with God's sovereignty over this universe, but from a literary perspective, they are completely out of the blue. There was nothing in the prior part of the book that prepared the reader (and by that, I mean "me," which again could just be me) for that becoming a major factor in the story. Finally, I do not think the solution with which the book ended was elegant. I was expecting the title to be a play on words, referring both to Euler's solution to the reciprocal squares challenge and to the mystery of the book, and maybe that was not Robertson's intention. So, if it was not, the fault is mine. But, if it was, the ending was not really elegant. Again, I do not want to say too much for those who have not read it, but I found it more abrupt and not very fulfilling for what I was looking for from the resolution.

So, to end, I do want to stress that this is a really well-written book, and perhaps it was just my expectations that I developed as I read that caused my disappointment.
4344933
I absolutely loved all three books. I agree with many that Sawyer got up on his soapbox a little too much, but the story advanced so many new ideas and possibilities to think on, it was worth wading through all the left wing muck. I loved it all anyway, right up until the very end. And then ... it was almost as bad as the stereotypical cheater's ending: instead of tying up all the loose ends, you just write, "...and then I woke up. It was all a dream."

That's not, of course, how it ended. But I was extremely disappointed.

All that having been said, however, I wouldn't pass up three volumes of great storyline just because I didn't enjoy the last 5 minutes. I'll just make up my own ending in my head and be happy.
574395
I liked it very much, except for the end. It seemed to wrap up in a rush and the plausibility factor took a big dive.
4272467
I have read several of Fannie Flagg's books and mostly I really enjoy them......in The Whole Town's Talking, I enjoyed the story woven throughout the years, each character a part of the little town of Elmwood.  However, the ending ruined it for me.....really, reincarnation?  A big let down after a great read,
1277710
I was enjoying the book so much and would have given it 4 stars, but then the ending!! OMG !! So frustrated
1126444
It was great until the end.  I couldn't put it down but the end just ended.  It ws like the story didn't finish.  I was really looking forward to the finale and was very dissapointed
2300974
I loved it all the way until the end. It kind of felt like she just decided to wrap it all up neatly and I don't really think the ending gave the story or the characters what they deserved. Maybe there was no other way to feasibly wrap it up, but I just felt let down.