A review by humblej
God Shaped Hole by Tiffanie DeBartolo

4.0

You know, I'm a sucker for a happy ending and this one was definitely tragic. It was beautiful and brought me to tears; who doesn't appreciate a book that actually makes you feel something? I knew this ending was coming from the prologue and there were these anvils of foreshadowing that he would die and the fortune teller was not going to be a fraud in the end. I thought that might happen, that he'd have a near death experience but it'd all work out. It's just very sad that it didn't. I enjoyed the ride. Loved the characters and that's why this gets four stars instead of five for me. Beatrice's story is too unfinished. He died too late in the novel for there to feel like any closure for her at all. She's resigned to going through the rest of life with this God Shaped Hole and that sucks. It may be the morale of the story, that sometimes there is no end to grief but it sucks.