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Dani asked this question about Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl:

Does this book end well? I'm dying to read it but I can't really handle sad endings at the moment. Maybe goes without saying but no spoilers please!

sam I know I'm late to the game in answering this question. But, in case you haven't gotten a response anywhere else, I'll say here, having just finished …moreI know I'm late to the game in answering this question. But, in case you haven't gotten a response anywhere else, I'll say here, having just finished it, that the ending is neither tragic nor a happily ever after. A faint melancholy haunts even the last pages of the book, but I think it closes with a bruised optimism that I couldn't really pinpoint in the text if asked to do so.

I will also say that, in my opinion, this is one of those books that doesn't give its reader everything they likely want in an ending, but it does give them everything they need.

I realize that is all pretty vague and potentially deeply unhelpful! I'm a person who has embargoed all devastating and/or "grimdark" media during the pandemic (decided there's enough ambient suffering in the real world) and this wasn't too sad for me. The middle of the book got close to my current threshold for depressing shit, but I slogged through and I'm glad I did. There was for me, a sweetness and a satisfaction in how the book concluded.(less)

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