The End of Everything is the first novel that I've read by Megan Abbott. It is not the author's first novel. I looked up Abbott's previous titles because I liked this one enough and the titles listed on the inside cover were pretty kick ass--like you know how sometimes you can tell you'll want to read a book just by the title alone? Or an intriguing title is enough to get you look it up on Amazon to find out what it's about? Well, that's why I looked up previous Abbott titles--totally forgetting that I already did this weeks ago and, when the photos of the book covers came up on Amazon, it all came back to me. Because the covers make the books look like pulp crime fiction titles. I don't know if they're really that or not, but it was enough (for now) for me to decide that I don't want to read any of the previous titles. I may change my mind in the future, but the descriptions of the plots didn't really redeem the book covers enough to make...
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