Tell The Story To Its End by Simon P Clark

I was so prepared to give this 5 stars and to share it with my nine year old son. 

It was gripping and fanciful and heart-wrenching and hopeful ... I thought. 

And then came the "end." 

I howled out loud and scared my cat and got strange looks from my son's father while I hollered "what kind of ending was THAT?!?" 

I suppose, though, that was kind of the point ... but it's not something I would share with my nine year old and since this is supposedly a "middle grade" book and I can't for the life of me imagine letting a middle grader read it ... not a 5 star book anymore.

(I received this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.)