/lit/ - Literature

Why do novels so often have to shit themselves narrative-wise in the last third or so? You spend hours reading a good story, with characters you like and in interesting situations, and then they pull the rug out from under you with a subversion that just doesn't work and/or tun off on a plot thread tangent. It instantly kills my interest in the story and pisses me off because of the time invested.

This weeks contender is Fevere Dream. It's got a decent cast of interesting character, an interesting premise, an interesting antagonist, and even a compelling twist on the nature of the vampires, and then for the last third of the books is the same plot thread (Ooopsie, I nearly died but escaped) looping multiple times and everything just loses all tension.

what did I think?

has anyone read this?
i'm curious after miyazaki said it was his favourite