PennLady
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I know I always counsel people against reading too much into scores and feedback. It's a big pond, I say, with many anonymous fish commenting. Both with usernames and not.
Still I have to say I was taken back by the reaction to the ending of R&B. (I am not asking anyone to read it, or comment; I'm just kind of musing.) It's not been mean or vitriolic (it's not like it's LW, after all
). But I have been deluged with requests for more chapters or an epilogue.
I'm flattered that people enjoyed the story and characters, but part of me is flummoxed (and I know I shouldn't be) about the ... inability? unwillingness? of readers to accept an ending that is not what they expected and take the one given. Do they really need it spoon fed that the main couple stayed together forever? Or that the woman and her father did not reconcile? Must every single idea you introduced be tied up with a bow?
One reader commented (not here on Lit) that he wished he hadn't read it, now that he's read and didn't like the ending. Which he didn't like because it wasn't the one he wanted (involving things that simply would not happen, given the characters).
Or, I guess I just learned again not to f*ck with romance cliches.
Sorry, just venting. Couldn't help it.
Still I have to say I was taken back by the reaction to the ending of R&B. (I am not asking anyone to read it, or comment; I'm just kind of musing.) It's not been mean or vitriolic (it's not like it's LW, after all
I'm flattered that people enjoyed the story and characters, but part of me is flummoxed (and I know I shouldn't be) about the ... inability? unwillingness? of readers to accept an ending that is not what they expected and take the one given. Do they really need it spoon fed that the main couple stayed together forever? Or that the woman and her father did not reconcile? Must every single idea you introduced be tied up with a bow?
One reader commented (not here on Lit) that he wished he hadn't read it, now that he's read and didn't like the ending. Which he didn't like because it wasn't the one he wanted (involving things that simply would not happen, given the characters).
Or, I guess I just learned again not to f*ck with romance cliches.
Sorry, just venting. Couldn't help it.