Beth, I had similar reservations after seeing the reactions, and I was surprised at how satisfying I found the ending. In a way, I thought the blatant unfairness of some things--Finnick dying but Enobaria surviving--worked very well from a narrative perspective. I also loved how quickly friendships could form under wartime conditions while other relationships, e.g. Katniss's friendship with Gale, were permanantly damaged by that same war. No, it wasn't a happy ending in the most traditional sense of the word, but it wasn't nihilistic, either.

It was real-life messy without being narratively messy, if that makes sense.

Yeah, it was awful, but appropriately awful. I just finished.

The ending was one of the few things I liked about Mockingjay.

Overall, it was the weakest of the three books for me, because the clear focus of the first book especially was missing. But the ending wrapped things up in a way that felt right to me.

Connie -- Oh, all of that is fine, it's just where it suddenly becomes a thriller, and after he saves the day he licks a puppy, and the end. It's a little too "And they all lived happily ever after, I swear."

I loved the ending of Kavalier and Clay. I thought it was perfect.

Me, too.

One of my favorite endings is in Maurice. The scene where Maurice goes to see Alec off at the ship and he's waiting with Alec's family and that horrible minister and everything goes wrong, wrong, wrong until he realizes that everything is going to be okay and there's that perfect sunset and the world is suddenly on his side - I could read that chapter 1001 times.

"Now we shan't never be parted."

A Prayer for Owen Meany, one of my fave books of all time, has a great ending. The entire book builds up to it, and it doesn't disappoint.

God, I adored this. It made me think of endings differently, and love the book forever. Nothing I'd thought of as a digression turned out to be one.

I should reread, huh? Except it makes me cry and cry.

Oh, that's such a good book. Maybe I'll re-read too. Although I just got Hotel New Hampshire for Christmas, one of the few Irvings I haven't read yet, so I should probably read that first.