Review: After the End by Clare Mackintosh

This was such a great story, and so very different from what you’d expect.

The illness of a child, something that parents don’t even want to imagine. But here it is, Max and Pip dealing with the harsh reality of Dylan’s cancer. And even when things are very bad, they still believe that it has to get better.

It doesn’t get better, though. And if the doctors are to be believed, it won’t ever get better. So Max and Pip are faced with a decision that no parent should ever have to make. What happens if they decide differently?

This much alone makes this such a deeply compelling story. But the author does something unexpected. We are presented with two different endings, two different paths the story could have taken. And the most intriguing part is, we never truly find out which was the actual outcome. It leaves you wondering, which in this case is a great thing!

~Thalia

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One thought on “Review: After the End by Clare Mackintosh

  1. The two separate endings thing sound cool in theory but I also think I’d probably find it frustrating- WHICH ENDING IS THE REAL ONE??! Sick kid stories aren’t usually my forte but if this one manages to be something really different from the norm I might eventually give it a try.

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