The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the meme on February 15, 2013. Check out the hop here!

Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.

The Question of the week is: What are your thoughts on “happily ever after” endings?
I love a ‘happily ever after’, if it fits the rest of the storyline. If it’s just tacked on for the sake of having a happy ending, then I tend to feel cheated and it makes me grumpy.

For example, I’ve been reading a chick-lit full of drama and disaster, the Love Heart Lane series by Christie Barlow – I’ve just finished reading Foxglove Farm and there were storylines involving depression, a struggling marriage, animal rustling, a failing farm and a disastrous fire – the story had a happy ending that tied everything up nicely but it fit the tone of the book, the genre and what the characters were working towards. An ending that didn’t come under ‘happily ever after’, with the marital problems resolved, the damage fixed and the animals saved, it would have been unsatisfying.

On the other hand, one of the things I loved about The X-Files is that the episodes, even the standalone ones, weren’t tied up neatly with a bow at the end and everything re/solved. There was always that loose thread, that what-if, that curiosity. A ‘happy ending’ wouldn’t have fit the tone of the show or the type of stories that were being told.

And sometimes, even when I want the characters to have a happy ending because they’ve been through so much shit, that’s not what the story necessarily needs and it would detract from the enjoyment of the story.

So yes, I love a happily ever after ending if it fits the storyline.