I'm thinking of ending things

First, I want to mention that this book has a movie adaptation (2020) on Netflix with a pretty great cast: Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette and David Thewlis — the first three I absolutely love and always keep an eye on. However, I didn’t enjoy the adaptation that much, probably because it was made by Charlie Kaufman. The movie had some pretty odd additions that I didn’t quite get, especially the long scene at the end.

That said, the book itself is pretty nice and there’s a lot I liked about it:

• It’s pretty short — 223 pages — with a nice writing style that’s easy to read (I read it in Russian, not English);
• It covers an important and uncomfortable topic;
• I love dark atmospheres in books, movies and series, and this book definitely has one.

But there are things I didn’t like either:

• The author chose a very weird way of approaching the topic (not going to spoil what it is);
• I didn’t get much of a surprise effect — pretty quickly you can figure out what’s going on, so by the end nothing really catches you off guard;
• The book didn’t leave a clear aftertaste — it got stuck somewhere in between.