I think it was an upbeat cliffhanger as well, because we have hope that he will live, and we can assume that the next book will confirm that. You didn't pull a Jim Butcher manuever, by having Harry Dresden get shot and fall back into the water on the last line of the book, with nothing saying whether or not he was dead and we'd never hear from him again, and then give us a follow-up book a year or so later that has Dresden as a freakin' GHOST, unable to really do much but talk, for the whole book. THAT hacked me off, because it smelled like what Conan Doyle did with Sherlock Holmes by having him fall over Reichenbach Falls...and you just can't kill iconic characters at the end of a novel and not expect fan outcry.
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I agree with Ellenru
Date: 2011-11-25 03:04 am (UTC)You didn't pull a Jim Butcher manuever, by having Harry Dresden get shot and fall back into the water on the last line of the book, with nothing saying whether or not he was dead and we'd never hear from him again, and then give us a follow-up book a year or so later that has Dresden as a freakin' GHOST, unable to really do much but talk, for the whole book. THAT hacked me off, because it smelled like what Conan Doyle did with Sherlock Holmes by having him fall over Reichenbach Falls...and you just can't kill iconic characters at the end of a novel and not expect fan outcry.