Mermaids in Paradise question

Loved it. It caused you to look back at everything you just read/heard and see it through new eyes. It actually bumped my rating up.

I actually listened to this as an audiobook, and when it got to the last five minutes, I almost hit the brakes in the car while saying 'What the f*?!'

It also made me wonder what was the big push to make money off the mermaids if the world is soon going to be destroyed.

However, it made some other elements make more sense: Chip's urge for extreme sports, Deb's constant drinking, the number of 'barely remembered' relatives at the wedding. A lot of people are probably doing the 'we're going to die, so we should cram in as much as possible in the meantime.'

The Last Policeman (and two sequels) are a better look at what would happen in that scenario, though.

seemed unnecessary to me. I thought it was better without

I too was shocked by the ending. However, I think it might have been intended to show a Stoicism twist. Perhaps Deb & the others decided to proceed as though the world was not ending; perhaps the eminent end of the world persuaded them to do the wedding and honeymoon just as something to do, and then the mermaids, etc., became another useful distraction. In a similar way, we all know we're going to die, yet we continue living and doing things in spite of that fact. What else makes sense? Would an approaching asteroid really change that?

Lianne - thanks for the mention of The Last Policeman ... Just downloaded it