Everyone raves about how beautiful of a book it is, and it lived up to the hype. It was a stone cold masterpiece. But no one warned me about that ending.
SPOILERS:
The visuals alone are terrifying: Amaranta Ursula dead on the table from childbirth. Her incest baby with a pig’s tail is being eaten alive by fire ants. Aurelino paralyzed to do anything as he finally translates the prophesy that predicted his fate 100 years earlier. And a family wiped from existence with one fell swoop.
“The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants.” Goodness Gabriel. Thanks for making me the latest victim of the insomnia plague.
Am I the only one who felt like this book waited until the last 5 pages to reveal that it was a horror novel all along?
by phoh32
1 Comment
I think there are some strong indicators from the start—the dude’s facing a firing squad in the first sentence. There’s plenty of murder and death throughout. That said, the ending DOES go balls-to-the-wall at the very end. I suspect people just don’t want to spoil the very ending? Or maybe they’re just trying to block it out, haha.