Church of Marvels

At about 10 pages before the epilogue, I realized that not everything was going to be explained and I got really excited. We aren't going to know who fathered Bella's baby, and we aren't going to know how the fire started in the theater, and that's great because it's not important to know, and it's not real to know. There are all sorts of things that happen in life that hugely change us but we have no idea what was behind them, and it's still interesting how things play out. Allowing the reader to speculate, or to not speculate and to simply accept them as things that happened “before” - that felt really fresh and interesting and exciting.

And then the epilogue explained who fathered Bella's baby, how the fire started, and threw in some last minute curves about the twins' mom not being their mom.