History YMMV / TheCasualVacancy

* [[AmericansHateTingle American Critics Hate The Casual Vacancy]]: While reviews for the book have been mixed everywhere, American book critics seem to slide more to the negative side, what with the book being far more about British issues and leaving certain intricacies of UK life unexplained for the foreign reader. American ''fans'', [[CriticalDissonance on the other hand]], are simply [[LoveItOrHateIt divided.]]

*** Andrew Price isn't on here? He gets bullied by his turd of a father, and his equally turdish best friend, and he doesn't know where he stands. Paul as well, though he's not developed.

* TheWoobie: Sukhvinder, who is dyslexic, has hair growing on her upper lip, and is TheUnfavorite in her family. [[TheBully Fats]] ridicules her constantly at school, calling her a hermaphrodite and a lesbian, and sends her mocking pictures and messages on {{Website/Facebook}}. Her mother is emotionally abusive because of Sukhvinder's [[EducationMama poor school performance]] and her father, while loving, doesn't seem to expect much of her when compared to her siblings. Krystal Weedon, a former friend from her rowing team, turns against her when Sukhvinder's mother is accused of being the cause of [[spoiler:Nana Cath's death]], and threatens to have her gang beat her up. [[spoiler:To cap it off, Sukhvinder spends her nights cutting herself and wishing she were dead.]]

*** Even then she'd still count [[spoiler: since the only reason she was going to have sex with Fats was to try and get pregnant and therefore be more eligible for assistance in order for herself and Robbie to leave their mother's. The only way she could think of getting out of her situation was a stupid plan, but she was basically teetering on the DespairEventHorizon and jumped straight off it when Robbie died.
*** Andrew Price isn't on here? He gets bullied by his turd of a father, and his equally turdish best friend, and he doesn't know where he stands. Paul as well, though he's not developed.]]

*** Even then she'd still count [[spoiler: since the only reason she was going to have sex with Fats was to try and get pregnant and therefore be more eligible for assistance in order for herself and Robbie to leave their mother's. The only way she could think of getting out of her situation was a stupid plan, but she was basically teetering on the DespairEventHorizon and jumped straight off it when Robbie died.]]

*** Even then she'd still count [[spoiler: since the only reason she was going to have sex with Fats was to try and get pregnant and therefore be more eligible for assistance in order for herself and Robbie to leave their mother's. The only way she could think of getting out of her situation was a stupid plan, but she was basically teetering on the DespairEventHorizon and jumped straight off it when Robbie died.]]

* [[AmericansHateTingle Americans Hate The casual Vacancy]]: While reviews for the book have been mixed everywhere, American book critics seem to slide more to the negative side, what with the book being far more about British issues and leaving certain intricacies of UK life unexplained for the foreign reader. American ''fans'', on the other hand, are simply [[LoveItOrHateIt divided.]]

* AmericansHateTingle: While reviews for the book have been mixed everywhere, American book critics seem to slide more to the negative side, what with the book being far more about British issues and leaving certain intricacies of UK life unexplained for the foreign reader. American ''fans'', on the other hand, are simply [[LoveItOrHateIt divided.]]

* ParvumOpus: Not a disaster but it appears to be Rowling's book with the lowest reception in contrast with the Harry Potter and the Cormoran Strike series.

* [[AmericansHateTingle American Critics Hate the Casual Vacancy]]: While reviews for the book have been mixed everywhere, American book critics seem to slide more to the negative side, what with the book being far more about British issues and leaving certain intricacies of UK life unexplained for the foreign reader. American ''fans'', on the other hand, are simply [[LoveItOrHateIt divided.]]

** From the series, Barry's speech at the parish council, and Krystal calling the police on Obbo after Terri was on drugs she got from him at the time of Kay's visit.

** From the series, Barry bailing Terri out and his interactions with his nephews (Andrew and Paul) and Mary (the latter being HarsherInHindsight as his death is a ForegoneConclusion, see TearJerker).

** From the series, Barry's speech at the parish council.

* HeartwarmingMoments: The interactions between Barry and the rowing eight, especially Barry and Krystal, Gaia and Sukhvinder's friendship (to the point that Gaia yells at Fats for being a JerkAss.)

* TearJerker: Krystal, Terri and Robbie's story, Mary snapping about how lonely she felt while Barry was working for the community, Tessa Wall having to play middleman between Fats and Colin and getting nothing but forgetfulness from Colin and disdain from Fats in return, Sukhvinder's problems, Andrew's homelife.

* HeartwarmingMoments: The interactions between Barry and the rowing eight, especially Barry and Krystal, Gaia and Sukhvinder's friendship (to the point that Gaia yells at Fats for being a [[Jerkass jerkass]].)

* AwesomeMoments: Andrew standing up to his father (every time counts), the rowing eight's achievements, Barry having managed to keep Krystal in the rowing team, Parminder calling Howard out on his hypocrisy, [[spoiler: Sukhvinder trying to save Robbie, Andrew sending the post that started it all.]]

* [[AmericansHateTingle American Critics Hate The Casual Vacancy]]: While reviews for the book have been mixed everywhere, American book critics seem to slide more to the negative side, what with the book being far more about British issues and leaving certain intricacies of UK life unexplained for the foreign reader. American ''fans'', on the other hand, are simply [[LoveItOrHateIt divided.]]

** Looks like the election is over, and [[spoiler: Miles Mollison]] won the parish council seat! [[NotSoFastBucko Wait a minute, what do you mean there's still a hundred pages left in the book?]]
** However, also kinda averted. Those who skip to the last page will see [[spoiler:Krystal rowing in a team again saying to "win it for Barry"]], with no implication that [[spoiler:she's dead and it's a flashback.]]

** Krystal counts for most of the book, [[spoiler:at least until she negligently leaves Robbie by himself so she can have sex with Fats, and Robbie falls into the river and drowns. Even then, she almost still counts, since the reason Robbie was with her at all was because she found Obbo alone with him, and was desperate to keep Robbie safe, so she took him with her.]]

* {{Complete Monster}}:
** Terri's father. Beat and raped his daughter and ''threw a pan of chip fat at her!''
** Obbo as well. He [[spoiler: frequently rapes one of his own customers]], and [[spoiler: rapes her daughter '''and possibly her three year old son''', who may have been his own son as well]].
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: With an extremely mundane premise and a cast of characters that range from extremely pathetic to CompleteMonster, many have found it very difficult to become attached to any of the characters, and thus care about the story's conclusion.

** Krystal counts for most of the book, [[spoiler:at least until she negligently leaves Robbie by himself so she can have sex with Fats, and Robbie falls into the river and drowns. Even then, she almost still counts, since the reason Robbie was with her at all was because she found [[CompleteMonster Obbo]] alone with him, and was desperate to keep Robbie safe, so she took him with her.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: With an extremely mundane premise and a cast of characters that range from extremely pathetic to CompleteMonster, many have found it very different to become attached to any of the characters, and thus care about the story's conclusion.

** Obbo as well. He [[spoiler: frequently rape one of his own customers]], and [[spoiler: rapes her daughter '''and possibly her three year old son''', who may have been his own son as well]].

** Obbo as well. He [[spoiler: frequently rape one of his own customers]], and [[spoiler: rapes her daughter '''[[AnythingThatMoves and possibly her three year old son]]''', who may have been his own son as well]].

* OneSceneWonder: [[spoiler: Absent for most of the book and barely mentioned, Patricia Mollison's brief appearance and revelation near the end of the book, that she walked in on her father being orally pleasured by his assistant Maureen years ago, indirectly via The_Ghost_of_Barry_Fairbrother, likely causes Howard's second and near fatal heart attack and his wife, in a fit of rage attempt to kill him just before he has it.]]

** Obbo as well. It's one thing to [[spoiler: frequently rape one of his own customers]], but to [[spoiler: rape her daughter '''[[AnythingThatMoves and possibly her three year old son]]''', who may have been his own son as well, is even worse]].

* TheWoobie: Sukhvinder, who is dyslexic, has hair growing on her upper lip, and is TheUnfavorite in her family. [[TheBully Fats]] ridicules her constantly at school, calling her a hermaphrodite and a lesbian, and sends her mocking pictures and messages on {{Facebook}}. Her mother is emotionally abusive because of Sukhvinder's [[EducationMama poor school performance]] and her father, while loving, doesn't seem to expect much of her when compared to her siblings. Krystal Weedon, a former friend from her rowing team, turns against her when Sukhvinder's mother is accused of being the cause of [[spoiler:Nana Cath's death]], and threatens to have her gang beat her up. [[spoiler:To cap it off, Sukhvinder spends her nights cutting herself and wishing she were dead.]]

* TheWoobie: Sukhvinder, who is dyslexic, has hair growing on her upper lip, and is TheUnfavorite in her family. [[TheBully Fats]] ridicules her constantly at school, calling her a hermaphrodite and a lesbian, and sends her mocking pictures and messages on {{Facebook}}. Her mother is emotionally abusive because of Sukhvinder's [[EducationMama poor school performance]] and her father, while loving, doesn't seem to expect much of her when compared to her siblings. Krystal Weedon, a former friend from her rowing team, turns against her when Sukhvinder's mother is accused of being the cause of [[spoiler:Nana Cath's death]], and threatens to have her gang beat her up. [[spoiler:To cap it off, Sukhvinder spends her nights cutting herself and wishing she were dead.]]

* {{Complete Monster}} Terri's father. Beat and raped his daughter and ''threw a pan of chip fat at her!''

* SpoiledByTheFormat: Looks like the election is over, and [[spoiler: Miles Mollison]] won the parish council seat! [[NotSoFastBucko Wait a minute, what do you mean there's still a hundred pages left in the book?]]