I'm Thinking of Ending Things: A Novel

An Amazon Best Book of June 2016: I m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It dominates. This is the opening of Iain Reid s debut novel and it could also be a description of the way I felt all the way through the book. In these days of fat, doorstop-sized tomes, I m Thinking of Ending Things wastes no excess pages and every word, every line, feels necessary. The narrator is considering what to do about Jake, the man with whom she is driving for hours to and from his parents house in the country. We see glimpses of a horrible crime in the future, and with each successive chapter the suspense and psychological buzz gets more intense. It s like a movie where you almost want to turn away, but of course you can t. Because this is a story that stays. It sticks. It lingers --Seira Wilson, The Amazon Book Review