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[You shouldn't end a chapter with dialogue.]

Huh? Never in 50 years I've been writing have I heard that.

What the beta reader is correct about is that the dialogue or whatever at the end of the chapter needs to end with something to make the reader breathlessly turn the page. My opinion.

I write first person, so my narration is practically dialogue, but ending a chapter with...

She spun around. "Oh, shit? Was that a cannon blast?"

...that's a page turner.

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