When Great Books Make You Angry - Musings on a Revisitation of the Nevernight Trilogy by Jay Kristoff

Tric is too good for all of them.

Authors owe us as readers absolutely nothing.  No artist really owes their audience anything.  Creating art, I believe, is something that's done from an inherent need to create.  Putting it out there in the world and having people enjoy it is fulfilling, and it certainly makes relying on your art as a career a lot easier, but creating something popular doesn't preclude a subsequent responsibility to continually cater to the same group of people and to stop creating things that you like personally.

What I'm trying to say here is that an author doesn't owe their readers happy endings, the survival of certain characters, or even books that make logical sense, to be perfectly honest.  That being said, that doesn't mean that I, as a reader, don't have the right to criticize and complain about an author when they do something I don't like.  I have power as a consumer and as a fan and I always have the choice to say, I don't like this and I'm not buying it anymore.  It doesn't save me feeling cheated or anything, but not every investment is a good one.