John Dies at the End - If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe

I’m always looking for something different, and this series is. Very.

Didn’t liked it. The story doesn’t make much sense, the last scene is not really explained, and the jokes are rarer and less funny.

Como todos los libros de Jason Pargin, este promete y entrega una historia de horror cósmico alucinante y emocionante, David, John y Amy se han vuelto de mis personajes favoritos en los libros.

Gotta say, this had one of the most incredible endings/climaxes in any book I've ever read. It handled wonky time travel, hellish pocket universes, memory lapses, and multiple dimensions very well and in a very screwy 'John dies at the end' sort of way that made it unique to the interdimensional cosmic horror genre that this series has carved out for itself over the years.Trust me, you will not figure out the mystery of what's happening until it's explained to you or until the final pieces start falling into place. I absolutely love how they beat the antagonists though, it made the book so memorable and was actually pretty realistic if you think about it, at least from a character standpoint.The themes of this book almost seemed like a climactic continuation and Part 2 to the themes of depression, defeatism, and suicide of the last book, which were good but honestly really depressing. David talks about his realization that killing yourself is never the end you think it is and it's all just painted exit doors like in road runner cartoons. There's something very refreshing about that dark truth to life - we all have to keep going on whether we like it or not and we might as well make the best of it if we're stuck here. If there's hope for someone like David Wong to turn his life around and change his fatalistic/pessimistic perception of the world, then there's hope for all of us.In the end, the thing and moment that beats the antagonist, seems like the very thing that metaphorically defeats the trauma that exists in David. Or at the very least, allows him to control his personal demons. These sound like dark themes (which they are) but they amount to one of the most upbeat books of the series on top of one of the most compelling and original mysteries yet.My rating: 9.5/10

Funny, a bit unsettling and hilarious. Could not put this book down and loved the narration.The author really gets the pacing right and there is nothing mundane about the story.