** spoiler alert ** I wanted to like this book more than I actually did. I feel like I should have known the ending, just from the difference in punctuation from the first two parts of the book compared to the last. I nthe first two sections all converstations are in italics and in the last section, the conversations are puncutated normally, with quotation marks, etc. However, in the first two sections, ALL conversations are in italics, even conversations that don't involve Linda. Does that mean that Thomas imagined his entire life?

I think the author meant it to be a kind of "Sixth Sense" OMG ending, but it just didn't work for me. The last two paragraphs were intended to have you rethink the whole story, but to me, it just doesn't fly. If you take one of the two main characters out of the first two sections, whole scenes just do not work anymore.

Not so much shocking, as contrived and unbelievable.