: Re: People like my book, starting halfway through This is kind of an alternate take on my other recent question, as well as the inverse problem to this question. I've been told by more than one

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Is it possible that the first half of the book led them to the expectation that, because the character was perceived as unlikeable, he was going to "get his", and then when that expectation changed, it caused them to react negatively? That might explain the timing of it; when he starts to become more sympathetic the readers were upset by that.

Maybe you just need to take a stronger hold of their expectations. How are you creating sympathy for the character? He needs some redeeming characteristics, and you need to make sure the readers understand that that are supposed to sympathize with him.

Here's a good way to give readers sympathy for an unsympathetic character; make everyone around him worse.

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