Surprise Endings & Plot Twists

Like a book with a ending you didn't see coming, or a twist that comes out of nowhere? Try these books!

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Allegedly. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn’t say.

Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.

Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Now Claudia needs her best—and only—friend more than ever. But Monday’s mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and Monday’s sister April is even less help. As Claudia digs deeper into her friend’s disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she’s gone?

This is a world divided by blood—red or silver. In this world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance—Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart.

Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.