Das Cover ist eigentlich unspektakulär, hat mich aber sofort angezogen. Eine junge Frau, nachdenklich schauend. Aber nicht nur das Cover, sondern auch der Titel hat mich neugierig gemacht, genauso wie der Klappentext.

of course i also loved the other characters as well. myst, marin, and kalaya were such a lovely group of friends. they had such unique, funny, and charming personalities and complimented each other so well. Israel is on the brink of testing a far different approach to regime change. Its leaders have announced a desire to dismantle the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip. Rather than entering battle with a carefully constructed blueprint for what might follow victory, though, they are winging it, improvising in the dazed aftermath of a devastating massacre that left its military and political leadership in a state of shame and confusion. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government announced its war aims before it had fully sketched out how it might effectively realize them. Disclaimer: I received an ARC of this book for free in exchange for a review and support promoting the book as part of the author’s street team. As far as the writing style is concerned, it took me a while to get used to it, mainly because I had a hard time following some sentences, but after a few chapters it became very easy and I liked the banter between the various characters and the descriptions of scenes and places.Unlike Henrietta, Annie is brimming with confidence―but even she has limits when it comes to opening up. Ever since that terrible night when her sister left a pile of clothes beside the canal and vanished, Annie has been afraid to look too closely into the murky depths of her memories. When her attempts to glide over the past come up against Henrietta’s determination to fill in the gaps, both women find themselves confronting truths they’d thought were buried forever―especially when Henrietta’s digging unearths a surprising emotional connection between them. Henrietta may be a “failed librarian” but she learned how to conduct research in her past career, and she decides to seek answers for Annie, since nobody else ever has.

Fond of zany vintage clothing and sweet treats, she’s an easy character to spend time with all the same. Not so 32-year-old Henrietta, who’s tasked with coaxing Annie’s life story out of her. A gauche, obsessively methodical missionary’s daughter, Henrietta lives alone with her dyspeptic rescue mutt Dave and descends from a long line of oddball literary heroines. Think Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant or Bonnie Garmus’s Elizabeth Zott but without the plausibility – at least initially. Die beiden Hauptfiguren sind jede auf ihre Art besonders. Henrietta hat etwas von einer Autistin, alles sollte nach Plan laufen, geradlinig, möglichst in einen Fragenkatalog "eingefasst". Sie ist verschlossen, ohne große soziale Kontakte, ohne soziale Kompetenzen. Sometimes you stumble upon books that just feel like going home. Tell me how it ends was like that to me. It’s the perfect mix between cozy fantasy and heist fantasy, with high stakes.But Efraim Halevy, a legendary head of Mossad, vented his anxieties about any failure to achieve Israel’s stated aims. Although he abhors the Netanyahu government—and doubts the wisdom of its strategy and the competence of the officials charged with executing it—he told me that failure would likely further demoralize the public, which was severely fractured before Hamas’s invasion. Failure to eradicate Hamas would make it nearly impossible to reassure refugees from the townlets and kibbutzim in the south—200,000 of them, by one count—to return and rebuild. In the recriminations that would inevitably follow the war, the political anger provoked by Netanyahu’s judicial reform might return, only this time stoked by a sense of total despair. Content warnings: Family-based trauma, fantasy violence and racism, kidnappings, imprisonment, anxiety Der Schreibstil ist flüssig, bildhaft und auch "unaufgeregt". Die Kapitel wechseln zwischen den beiden Hauptfiguren. Zwei Menschen, die eigentlich unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten, begegnen sich und jede "muss" eine Aufgabe erfüllen.

Die Geschichte hat mich persönlich berührt, denn auch ich habe einen geliebten Menschen verloren, - meine Mama und gleichzeitig beste Freundin. Die Zeit stand nur kurz still, sodass ich gar nicht ausreichend trauern konnte. Während des Lesens aber, habe ich häufig an sie gedacht. Z.B. geht es hier auch um verpasste Chancen. Zu gerne hätte ich sie noch viele Dinge gefragt, hätten wir mehr Zeit gehabt, in der es ihr gut ging. Allein, wie sie ihren Grünkohl gemacht hat. Ich probiere und probiere, bekomme es aber nie ganz so hin. Oder wie sie die Zeit empfunden hat, als sie Oma geworden ist, so wie ich jetzt. ⁣ Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis-and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency.” -Jeremy Garber, Powell’s Books Tell Me How This Ends is a charming debut novel which had many qualities that I enjoy in a book. What mainly attracted me was the plot with Henrietta listening to and transcribing people's life stories, often those who are terminally ill. So many stories are forgotten and I love the idea of memories being recorded to make life story books. The other side of the plot is that of Annie who is telling her story to Henrietta. She's never been able to get over the disappearance of her sister many years earlier and Henrietta turns into a bit of a detective on her behalf. Keeping the spoilers to a minimum, but I am unable to write this review without talking about the ending and the book on a whole. Tell Me How It Ends is supposed to be a re-imagining of Tangled, and during the initial chapters, this was largely evident. I was able to find a ton of similarities between the two narratives and loved the way that a lot of the author’s creative takes came through. I found the protagonist to be incredibly interesting—I’ve never read anything with a Tarot reader at the forefront—and so I was immediately intrigued to see how it would pan out.She is given an ultimatum — a test to prove her worth: earn a thousand coins or leave the business, and the family.