Book Review - The End of Everything

The End of Everything by Megan Abbott

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This is another girl-gone-missing tale. It seems like there have been quite a few of those on the market in the last couple of years. The vulnerability of women never goes out of style I guess.

The End of Everything explores the situation from the point of view of the adolescent best friend of the missing girl, who revisits her memory of the last afternoon she'd seen her friend over and over in hopes of uncovering a clue. When she does - an important clue no less - she begins ravaging her memory of the last few months, turning events over and over in her mind, trying to make sense of everything that happened.

Much of this book takes place within the main character's head. For a stoyrline that includes such drama, there is very little in the way of actual action, and so I found myself bored with the story and skipping ahead a bit here and there. While the writing is quite good, and very realistic in the mindset of a young girl, the story suffers from being somewhat slow and repetitive at times.

It's not a bad read, by any means, but since I've read some really brilliant books on this theme in the last couple of years, it paled a bit in comparison.



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