Kingdom of Knuffel

It really seems to be skewed by genre for me.

Most of the mysteries and thrillers are male protagonists
The straight fantasy and sci-fi are about half-and-half
the young adult and the urban fantasy are mostly female protagonists.
And of course almost all of the romances are written for women, so even if they have a 'male protagonist' he's usually pretty obviously written by a woman who isn't too worried about getting a male voice correct.
(I see the reverse of that sometimes too, women protagonists very clearly written by a man who doesn't much mind that it's obvious, but that tends to be less decisively genre-linked)

That's not to say, of course, that that's true across the board! Just, of the authors I tend to read within those genres.

I honestly have no idea about the protagonists.. whether there were more male of female ones... A guess out of the blue would be male.

No xD
With LSD I actually meant the hellucinogenic drug
Short for Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
It's not a book I would have bought or chosen, but I had a long conversation about drugs with a friend one week ago and he gave that book to me. As I wanted an easy-read I started reading it. It's actually interesting enough.

That doesn't sound like an easy read? Especially not if your chemistry was a long time ago, that can be hard to remember enough to follow books on drugs...

Well, you are right about that, if I concentrated on the chemistry terms I would not be able to call it an easy-read. But I don't focus on these so it's fine :) I get the gist without really knowing what these terms mean.

I am 364 pages into The Duchess now. I have something like 90 pages left to go. It's ok. It's another one that I think was a good idea, but it really needed a better editor or something. There is just so much going on that doesn't contribute to the story in any way, so many characters that don't end up being the least bit important, and it's very redundant too.

Sanssouci, this sounds frustrating!
I hate it if there are characters in the story who don't have a purpose.

LittleJulez wrote:Sanssouci, this sounds frustrating!
I hate it if there are characters in the story who don't have a purpose.

I see that a lot with authors who have published multiple books in the same world, and they make the protagonists of their first book(s) have cameos in the later ones even though they really don't have anything to do with the later stories.
I get that they want to 'check in' with those characters, but it seems like the kind of thing that would do better as a "bonus scene!" for free on their website than to put it in an actual book where potential first-time readers will be confused and annoyed by it.