Try arguig with the author.

       In the final stretch of God Don’t Like Ugly, by Mary Monroe, I was extremely disappointed on how a few events played out. I believe that the finale of every book should end on a good note. One of the first things I would change is Annette’s situation with her dad. How come she was never able to meet him? When Aunt Berneice told her about her father and her three half siblings trying to get in touch with her, Annette was ecstatic. “My daddy was still alive and has been trying to get in touch with me. I had siblings who wanted to meet me.” (P. 314). It just baffles me that the author didn’t have Annette contact her father immediately. If her father had been trying to search and contact Annette and her mother for all these years, why wouldn’t Annette finally contact him? Why didn’t she allow us to read and visualize the interaction with Annette and her father at the end of the story? I would have changed the story around, and instead of going back to Richland, I would have made Annette fly to Florida first to visit her daddy. Then after they bonded and such, I would have had her go back to Richland to let everyone know her and her father are on good terms.
       The second situation I would have changed was Annette’s friendship with Rhoda. What in the world happened to that? After Rhoda confided in her best friend, thinking she could officially tell Annette everything and put it in the past, Annette turns on her. What kind of friend would do that? After Rhoda had told Annette about the cop, her grandmother, and April that she had killed, along with Mr. Boatwright, apparently Annette decided she had enough. “Rhoda, how can I go on being friends with you now….. Do you realize what you’ve done to me? You’ve burdened me with information that could destroy me.” (P. 332). Obviously I understand that Annette doesn’t want to be friends with Rhoda, now knowing that she’s killed four people instead of just two, but strangely I feel bad for Rhoda. It’s almost as if Annette is abandoning her in this desperate time of need. All Rhoda was doing was being honest to her best friend. Yes, clearly it’s immoral to kill anyone, yet alone four people, but I just feel terrible how that’s the way Annette and Rhoda’s friendship had to end. It’s almost as if Annette considers her life just as good as Rhoda’s now, and no longer needs her as a friend. Their friendship ending was probably my biggest upset in the book, Rhoda was my favorite character.
       The third and foremost situation I would change is Annette’s and Peewee’s awkward relationship.  This two act as if they’re dating; they go on dates, hang out almost every night, and have had sex together. I don’t understand why Annette can’t just be happy in the end and finally get married. “Peewee and I even double dated with her and her husband-to-be.” (P. 337). Everyone around Annette was living a happy life and getting married, besides Rhoda, and Annette was yet to get engaged. When will her time come? Or will Annette just be stuck dating guys randomly here and there and just having sex with random people for the rest of her life? I just want to know why she never received a happy ending. Even her mother was able to marry Mr. King and go to the Bahamas! In conclusion, Annette’s lived a pretty tough life and even going back to the very beginning of the book, there would be a lot of events in her life I would have changed. Mary Monroe gave Annette one of the toughest lives, even right down to the end, but yet Annette managed to survive every second of it.