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I really enjoy reading. One of my favorite authors was Robin Cook. I would take the paperbacks with me on my long bus rides to work and they would make the trips seem faster and more pleasurable. However I began to lose my taste for them after I began to see a pattern. The climax of the story, where you find out who did it, or why something was done came about three quarters into the book. The last quarter was not even worth reading in many books because the ending just got so predictable. The bad guys always get caught, killed, or banished. The hero or heroine gets the guy, girl, or new super self confidence. It gets very boring after a while, and I feel like a part of my life has been wasted. Time is very precious and I don’t like to waste it.
One solution would be to have the climax a bit more towards the end of the story. Or maybe the author could make it not so obvious about “who dun it”. What ever the answer is, authors need to make sure the ending is worth the time to read it.