What?! NO! You're kidding right?

[erin_c_1978]

I finished Robin McKinley's Pegasus over dinner tonight, and the ending left me so dumbstruck that I checked TWICE to make sure I wasn't missing any pages -- that that was really it. And yeah, it really was, but what, no, that's not how things should be left standing! I feel like looking up a Robin McKinley message board, if one exists, to find out if there will by some slender chance be a sequel, or failing that to see if anyone will commiserate with me over the ending. It's not just that it was terribly, terribly sad -- it's that it felt like the last chapter was missing. Most of the time, whether I like the ending of a book or not, I'm willing to go along with it, but I cannot remember the last time the ending of a book felt so wrong to me. It's not finished yet. It can't be.

Actually, I take that back; I can. The last chapter of James Clavell's Shogun ended in a way that made me think he just got sick of writing it and decided to stop, but at least he summed up how events turned out. Though on reflection, in the case of Pegasus a summary would be awful.

Edit: OK, turns out I'm super clueless and there is in fact going to be a sequel.