4 Reasons to Never Skip to the End of a Book

Yarr! If ye be new here, ye may want to subscribe to me RSS feed. It be free and a great way to keep up to date. Thank ye for visiting! ~ Captain Lyaf Yarr.

by First Mate Keira, guest blogger

Are you the sort of person who must absolutely be spoiled before you start a book? I know it's tempting but going to the end of a book to discover how things turn out is a terrible idea.

Skipping to the end of a book:

(I know you do it...)

1. Ruins the mystery. The author put a lot of work into the story. If you're anxious to know the ending that means the author is doing a good job and you'll ruin all their hard work if you skip to the end. Bad reader. No cookie for you.
2. Is a waste of time. If you go straight to the end you'll just wind up wasting time. It takes time to figure out what happened (especially if you didn't get very far into the story) and then you'll find yourself rereading the ending! You could be starting a new book by now. Bad reader. No cookie for you.
3. Might as well not even start the book. That's right. If you are just going to read the end of story before you're suppose to why start it at all? It's like finding the cat out of the bag before you even realized there was a bag! Bad reader. No cookie for you.
4. You'll be tempted to share the ending. By skipping to the end to find out what happens you're likely to share this information with someone who doesn't want to know! You don't want to be that person at a (Harry Potter) Midnight Party who shouts the ending for a popular book series. That's not a way to win friends! Bad reader. No cookie for you.

 Loading ...

If you have, why do you do it?

Keira runs a book review blog for readers by readers on romance novels entitled Love Romance Passion. She’s been reading romance since she was in her teens and began blogging about romance so she could share her passion for her favorite genre. She loves reading paranormal, Regency, historical America, and highlander most of all and completely adores blind and wounded heroes.

• Review: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• Review: Turnabout by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• 9 Ways to Get Kids to Read
• 20 Reasons Why You Should Listen to Audio Books
• Review: Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse by Kaleb Nation

• Winner of Jackson's Rise - and Thanks to Tielle St. Clare for Showing Us How Sexy Werewolves Are.
• Quick and Dirty Tips for Effective Corporate Blogging, pt 5
• Special Features at Love Romance Passion
• Generating Topic Ideas Consistently: 3 Step Process
• Clinched, Clutched, and Cliched in Romance Covers
• Top 50 Romance Blogs, part 4