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* The ending to the second [[The Hunger Games|Hunger Games]] book (''Catching Fire'') caused ''major'' [[Ship-to-Ship Combat|fan freak-outs.]]
* [[Sammy Keyes|Wendelin Van Draanen]] ''loves'' ending every single one of her chapters with a cliffhanger. (Thankfully, they're always resolved with a turn of the page. Face it, as annoying as this can get, you can't say as much for the cliffhangers of [[The Devouring|other]] [[Artemis Fowl|authors.]])
* ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' ended with Harry finishing his fourth year at Hogwarts. Oh, and the little incidental fact that {{spoiler|Voldemort had returned}}, meaning that everything was about to change for the heroes and the world in which they lived. Naturally, the fandom exploded with theories, [[Wild Mass Guessing]], and more [[Fanfic]] than anyone could reasonably hope to read. The next book, ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', wasn't published until three years later, prompting many fans to dub the interval "the three-year summer."
** ''Order of the Phoenix'', ''Half-Blood Prince'', and, to a lesser extent, ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' end on cliffhangers as well. The first book also has a minor [[Sequel Hook]] with Dumbledore's mention that there are still other ways Voldemort could return, although that thread doesn't pay off until the fourth book. ''Goblet Of Fire'', however, goes so far as to title its final chapter "The Beginning".
** Also, in ''[[
** {{spoiler|Severus Snape: friend or foe?}}
* ''[[Six Sacred Stones]]'' takes the concept of a cliff hanger one epic step further. The novel ends with Jack West ''falling'' into an abyss, without his maghook.
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