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Meyers didn't though, no one suffered at all. Don't you think Tessa suffers everyday that her husband is dead? Meyers wrote the perfect happy ending- everyone has their own soul mate, no one is unhappy, and they will all live forever in their cute little bubble.
Oh I hate meyers more for blue ballsing her readers with the war-that-wasn't. Just saying that she wrote a bit of a more natural relationship (can't believe I'm saying that) whereas Clare only knows how to show people fall for each other. No one ever grows as a couple.
Okay, we can agree. Thought I was going to have to fight you. ;) Haha, but I get it. With Meyers at least Bella and Edward were in a semi-normal relationship (I mean, it was pretty stable if you got rid of the whole baby/vampire scenario) but even Clary and Jace are on and off in every book.
To be honest, I don't think that choosing only one of them would have been good for the book, good for the love story she built up. Clare always made clear that they all loved eachother. Will loved Tessa, Tessa Loved Will, Jem loved Tessa, Tessa loves Jem, but Will and Jem also loved eachother. There was never a will without a tiny bit of Jem inside him and vice versa. I personally believe that choosing only one would have ruined this. Tessa would have never felt complete choosing only one of them. She loved both equal. She never had only one of them. She never used Jem to get over Will or Will to get over Jem. Clare wrote about a love that included more than just two persons. At least that is my opinion.
Julia wrote: "To be honest, I don't think that choosing only one of them would have been good for the book, good for the love story she built up. Clare always made clear that they all loved eachother. Will loved..."
That's a fine opinion to have, and it's the same one Clare herself gives as explanation for her choice. I still regard it as lazy story telling, and this is more because of my other experience with her writing.
This sort of ending is very much in her MO and it was a pathetically predictable one for me - not the particulars of course, but that she would pull whatever strings necessary to end it with everyone getting what they want.
Happy endings, even predictable ones, are perfectly fine. It was a beautiful love triangle and I did feel for the characters, but that said I don't believe in conjuring up contrivances just to make it happen. This sort of ending should have been made possible by the actions of the characters alone, they should have taken responsibility for their feelings for each other and worked something out together if this was the endgoal. I don't believe in circumstance fixing a problem for people, and certainly not as the finalé of a trilogy.
But, as you said, it is just a matter of opinion :) I'm glad the ending made you happy, and I can't deny that far more people seem to agree with your school of thought than mine.
I enjoyed the ending, it was well written and emotional, more so than most of the series, but I have to agree with Samantha, it was a contrived ending. SF/Fantasy stories written solely around the relationship tend to be lacking in plot. The second half of TMI are an excellent example. That series should have ended after the third book. I no longer really even care about the relationship at this point in the series. ID at least had a very good plot, that Clare stayed true to throughout. I did think the endgame was also a little contrived, unexpected, but too convenient. But, alas that is the MO with these types of books.
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Meyers didn't though, no one suffered at all. Don't you think Tessa suffers everyday that her husband is dead? Meyers wrote the perfect happy ending- everyone has their own soul mate, no one is unhappy, and they will all live forever in their cute little bubble.
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Oh I hate meyers more for blue ballsing her readers with the war-that-wasn't. Just saying that she wrote a bit of a more natural relationship (can't believe I'm saying that) whereas Clare only knows how to show people fall for each other. No one ever grows as a couple.
Okay, we can agree. Thought I was going to have to fight you. ;) Haha, but I get it. With Meyers at least Bella and Edward were in a semi-normal relationship (I mean, it was pretty stable if you got rid of the whole baby/vampire scenario) but even Clary and Jace are on and off in every book.
To be honest, I don't think that choosing only one of them would have been good for the book, good for the love story she built up. Clare always made clear that they all loved eachother. Will loved Tessa, Tessa Loved Will, Jem loved Tessa, Tessa loves Jem, but Will and Jem also loved eachother. There was never a will without a tiny bit of Jem inside him and vice versa. I personally believe that choosing only one would have ruined this. Tessa would have never felt complete choosing only one of them. She loved both equal. She never had only one of them. She never used Jem to get over Will or Will to get over Jem. Clare wrote about a love that included more than just two persons. At least that is my opinion.
Julia wrote: "To be honest, I don't think that choosing only one of them would have been good for the book, good for the love story she built up. Clare always made clear that they all loved eachother. Will loved..."That's a fine opinion to have, and it's the same one Clare herself gives as explanation for her choice. I still regard it as lazy story telling, and this is more because of my other experience with her writing.
This sort of ending is very much in her MO and it was a pathetically predictable one for me - not the particulars of course, but that she would pull whatever strings necessary to end it with everyone getting what they want.
Happy endings, even predictable ones, are perfectly fine. It was a beautiful love triangle and I did feel for the characters, but that said I don't believe in conjuring up contrivances just to make it happen. This sort of ending should have been made possible by the actions of the characters alone, they should have taken responsibility for their feelings for each other and worked something out together if this was the endgoal. I don't believe in circumstance fixing a problem for people, and certainly not as the finalé of a trilogy.
But, as you said, it is just a matter of opinion :) I'm glad the ending made you happy, and I can't deny that far more people seem to agree with your school of thought than mine.
I enjoyed the ending, it was well written and emotional, more so than most of the series, but I have to agree with Samantha, it was a contrived ending. SF/Fantasy stories written solely around the relationship tend to be lacking in plot. The second half of TMI are an excellent example. That series should have ended after the third book. I no longer really even care about the relationship at this point in the series. ID at least had a very good plot, that Clare stayed true to throughout. I did think the endgame was also a little contrived, unexpected, but too convenient. But, alas that is the MO with these types of books.
