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The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland

The God of Endings

A Novel

by Jacqueline Holland

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  • Mar 2023, 480 pages
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Arthur

Vampires need love too
Excellent writing, a real page turner.
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Ann B. (Kernville, CA)

A marvel of a debut novel
"Everyone must decide for themselves whether this world and life in it is a kindness or an unkindness, a blessing or a curse." This novel is a marvel, difficult to classify, easy to admire. Told in alternating chapters, switching from the past to the novel's present time of 1984, The God of Endings is the saga of a lonely, immortal woman. It is at once a vampire novel, a psychological thriller, and an exploration of the human condition in general, motherhood in particular. It is also a coming-of-age novel, wherein the point-of-view character Anna/Anya/Colette takes 460 pages and more than 200 years to movemore
Michelle M. (West Warwick, RI)

VAMPIRES... SUPRISE!!
I was instantly enveloped into the world of The God of Endings. Very impressive for a debut novel and I was SO pleasantly surprised to discover: VAMPIRES! Always a fav subject of mine. Fans of Anne Rice, take note! The novel opens during a particularly brutal and bleak time in history. Consumption is wiping out whole communities and the townsfolk's fears surrounding the disease spiral to the supernatural & cause them to do unspeakable deeds in an effort to quell the spread.

The main character Anna/Anya/Collette survives thanks to her Grandfather and her journey takes a surprising turn. The idea of beingmore
Cheryl J. (Pebble Beach, CA)

A Beautiful and Strange Book
I was struck from the beginning, at the brutality this young and beautiful girl is able to survive in her long life. Anna is made immortal while only 10 years old, during a consumption outbreak in her small village. It got her father first, and she finishes the gravestone he began carving before his death. The rector of the church tells her they will unbury him and burn his body to prevent the devil using him to harm others. When Anna gets consumption, she is brought to the rectory for care, but her grandfather strides in and takes her away with him, to his home 20 miles away. As she begins to fade away, hermore
Terri K. (Houston, TX)

The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland
The God of Endings follows the life of a ten-year-old girl, Anna, who died in the 1830s of tuberculosis. The book opens with the Anna describing her home life with her father, a gravestone carver, and brother, Eli. With a tuberculosis epidemic, Anna's father is busy making the gravestones for the townsfolk. Aware of his fate, her father, who is not named, begins making his gravestone, inscribing it with a verse from Donne's tenth Holy Sonnet, "Death, be not proud." However, Anna discovers that he did not finish the stone, and she decides to finish it. Before dying, Anna's father wrote to Anna and Eli'smore
Helia R. (Goodlettsville, TN)

A breathtaking novel that straddles genre and defies classification
After losing myself in this extraordinary debut for a solid week (at over four hundred and sixty pages the novel is hefty) I'm very curious how THE GOD OF ENDINGS will be shelved in bookstores: Will it be considered literary fiction given the gorgeous prose and universal themes of love and loss? Will it be filed under speculative fiction or fantasy because its protagonist is one of the undead? Maybe the prevailing atmosphere of mystery and dread makes this a gothic novel… The tale starts in the 1830s and ends in the early 1980s, so could it be…. historical fiction….with magical elements?

Wherever this book willmore
Colleen T. (Lakewood, CO)

Great Adventure
The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland is a wonderful first novel. I was completely engrossed with the twists and turns of the story, with Anna's coming of age over centuries instead of years, and her coming to terms with her grief, loss and who she is throughout all that she saw and experienced. I love a book I don't want to put down, and this novel is like that. Kudos to Ms. Holland on her first novel.
Bonne O. (Hartwell, GA)

The Cycle of Endings
I really loved The God of Endings. It is a wonderfully exciting different kind of vampire story. This epic tale of a young women's personal growth and acceptance spans numerous life times over two centuries and across several continents. It delves into the struggle of her unwanted immortality, the powers it gives her and the denial of human attributes she longs to have.

It's beautifully written with detailed imagery of mountain landscapes, quaint villages, ocean voyages, and interesting people. I was so captivated by the heroines loving and compassionate qualities that I easily accepted some of the more gruesomemore

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