The ending of this novel, The Vanishing Game was confusing.
The hidden clues the author threw in did not really seem of any significance
until I reached the ending. When Jocelyn was having flashbacks of their
childhood, Kate Myers was hinting at the fact that Jack had died way before. Jocelyn
was in some sort of denial state of mind. Or confused as to what had happened.
I thought she was in just in shock. Then after a lot of close reading and
rereading of the confusing passages did I come to an understanding that Jocelyn
had a mental situation in which she “kept her brother alive”. She takes on Jack’s personality as a part of
her own. It is a sort of twisted ending. I was predicting that someone was
hiding Jack but I came to know Jocelyn was pretending a part of herself was
Jack to help herself cope with his death.
Here is a video to check out explaining a little bit more about the book:
What I like about your post was that you described detail about the characters. I have never read this book but by the way you described what was happening I partly understand. I think what you could do to improve this is just maybe give a little background just for someone who hasn’t read it. I have never read this but to be honest I kind of want to read it because it seems like there are a lot of twists and turns and I think that makes a book good. I would recommend The Help to you, I read it and I think it is personally a really good book and just like this book there are some twists in the book.
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