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Originally Posted by Sr. Mints
It has always my most common complaint about novels: that the story fizzles out at the end, disappoints, leaves me wanting more.
I can't even think of novel that had a terrific ending.
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You should read better books
For example Lois McMaster Bujolds Vorkosigan books pretty much all have good endings. (
The Vor Game,
Mirror Dance,
Barrayar are possibly my favourites.) In some of the duller ones (
Komarr,
Diplomatic Immunity) they're pretty much the best bits.
Ender's Game has an ending that's a pretty good comparison, as there too we spend most of the book preparing for a battle against an unexplained space enemy.
The ending, while not necessarily the best part of the book, actually makes that book better. It does pretty much everything people asked for from the ME3 ending. It makes reasonable sense, it fits with the previous themes, it explains the mysteries in a way that doesn't cheapen them. It's even a twist ending of sorts. It added more meaning to what I had read before. The ending for the most part simply followed from the rest of the book in a way that felt rather logical, leaving me as a reader with a feeeling that I knew the whole story now.
In ME3 everything had been building towards an epic end fight, but the writers weren't satisfied with that. In retrospect, propably not the best choice.