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Q&A Can a successful book series let the bad guy win? [closed]

I have a five book series and I have plotted them all out. The main bad guy wins in the end. My problem with this is my girlfriend keeps telling me that bad guys winning will make readers upset tha...

8 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by icefire‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:19:09Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/46284
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar icefire‭ · 2019-12-08T12:19:09Z (over 4 years ago)
I have a five book series and I have plotted them all out. The main bad guy wins in the end. My problem with this is my girlfriend keeps telling me that bad guys winning will make readers upset that they invested in the heroes only for them to die or lose. So now I am second guessing the entire series.

Can a book series be successful even if the bad guy wins in the end?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-06-26T21:00:22Z (almost 5 years ago)
Original score: 25