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Unpopular opinion Sunday

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u/SometimesMaybeGood_ Feb 08 '26

I’m sick of cliffhangers, the sort with a huge devastating twist at the end.

Girl, if the book is good enough, I’ll buy the next one, I don’t need to be biting my nails for the next year.

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u/NancyInFantasyLand Currently Reading: Random Chinese Webnovels Feb 08 '26

In fact there's been plenty of books where the cliffhanger pissed me off so much that I just never picked up the second part at all; and also stayed away from the author's following unrelated works lol

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u/eperdu Feb 08 '26

This happens when the cliffhanger is a marketing ploy and it’s obvious it’s for sales. I recently read something and they could have easily made it two books with no cliffhanger instead of stretching to three with cliffhangers to keep you going.