Thursday 23 January 2014

That Broken Empire Vibe



So I ran a poll of readers to see what the overall 'vibe' they got from the Broken Empire Trilogy was. The results are graphed above - the poll, with the categories & question is below.

55% of readers thought the overall feel of the books was on the 'cheerful' side, compared to 41% who felt it was on the 'miserable' side.

For each reader (1) who felt the vibe was 'joyless' there were 28 who felt the books were 'a laugh-riot'.

So... there you have it :)

The exercise was prompted by the suggestion from an author that the sub-genre to which the books are often claimed to belong is defined by the impossibility of joy.



2 comments:

  1. I don't equate misery with darkness, nor is something necessarily joyful if it has funny things. I found the series dark in places, intense quite often, funny on occasion, but neither miserable nor joyful. So how to vote was a difficult decision, based on the category descriptions.

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  2. I found it a bit miserable, downbeat, more dark than light... I fucking loved it.

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