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I felt like it was the perfect ending. I hadn't expected Judah to be fake at all, so when we were told that he was, I was like...oh. I was devastated that this character I came to love was just a hallucination, a vivid one. He was so real to me, to Margo. We didn't know who the real Judah was or how he thought. All we knew was the Judah Margo created. He was the type of person she wanted to be around. In real life when we meet someone who turns our world upside down, we can't imagine a life without them. Margo couldn't imagine life without Judah, so she made sure he would always be there. She knew deep down he wasn't real, but for her that was better than no one. Why let go of that? Margo's character couldn't and wouldn't.

Don't get me wrong, I was crying. Tarryn has a way with showing us real people. She shows us what the real world is like. I love that, but it's heartbreaking all the same. So, though the ending was exactly as it should have been, I was upset that Margo couldn't move on, that she was always going to be messed up because of what she has to endure.

I haven't read this one but the author definitely has dark tendencies in her writing. She does not guarantee HEAs and most of her best characters are not very likeable (in my opinion). But they feel authentic and are definitely very well written. I am usually desperate for a gripping read before I'll pick her up because she is very good and won't let you put it down no matter how much she threatens to devastate you. She is very good with the darker bits in people but I prefer to escape when reading. Shes such a good writer it lingers and not always in good ways. I may have been permanently scarred by Mud Vein because I was used to fluffier endings. (Even the grittiest biker book sometimes turns into a sappy romance when the end comes). But not this lady, she is fierce and I totally respect that, but Im also a wuss and prefer the sugar coated conclusions. I save her for those times Im so deep in self pity or pain that I need a "worse" example to snap myself out of it. I hope its clear to anyone who reads my comment that this is high praise, despite my reluctance to read more right now. I always put expectations on books that aren't always fair, but I avoid downer books. I don't want to "ugly cry" (and CoHo is the only author I allow to knowingly devastate me with the written word. ) The worse part is Im terrified of their joint efforts. I own them cuz I HAVE to read them. But Im gun shy.

haha I know exactly what you mean! I have read almost all of CoHo's stuff and now all of Tarryn's but I haven't read Never Never yet!