Cluster 12 is the second Romance cluster containing eight reviews, six of which belong to the Romance genre (18 percent of all Romance reviews in the network) and two Science Fiction reviews (eight percent of all Science Fiction reviews). It is strongly tied to the other Romance cluster (11) and has a connection to the Horror/Thriller Science Fiction cluster (08). It can be noted that the direct connection is located between two science fiction nodes, which seem to be a more incidental match to the cluster as they are quite short. Regarding the Absorption Dimensions, Attention, Emotional Engagement and Impact score the highest, the latter being slightly more represented than the two former. This is quite astonishing given the distribution of the genre in general. The Science Fiction reviews do not contain Emotional Engagement. But while they are mainly responsible for the rise of Impact above Emotional Engagement and contributing to the Attention count, even without this influence the ratio between Emotional Engagement and Attention does not align with the general Distribution in the genre. In the fine-grained annotation, there is a peak in Lingering Story Feelings in Impact, followed by General Sense of Absorption and Inability to stop reading in Attention and Parasocial Response and Emotional Connection in Emotional Engagement. Significantly, while Romance is the genre with the highest density of annotations, there is a vast difference between the annotation count of this cluster (29) and the other Romance cluster (11 ,65 annotations). After considering the difference in number of reviews and the inclusion of reviews from different genres, this still leaves us with 6.5 annotations per review in cluster 11 and only 4.8 in cluster 12. This is also reflected in the keywords where we find unique content words that point to plot descriptions, which can be found in approximately half of the reviews, but only one keyword describing reading experience (“love”).
| Category | Keyword |
|---|---|
| Genre | none |
| Experience | love |
| General descriptors | funny, romantic, perfect, adorable, amount, wonderful, sweet, shy, horrible |
| Content | king, future, guitar, love, castle, play, show |
| Additional information | none |
| Other | make, but, totally, please |
The reviews are very similar in style to those in cluster 11, employing the same informal language, capitalization, reaction descriptions in asterisks, commentary, slang and directly addressing the author, often by first name, while frequently adding “please” as found in the keywords. What separates this cluster from other clusters that show a clear dominance in one genre is that no genre description appears in the keywords. Although “love” is among them, it is not mentioned in terms of genre (“love story”) and is not as defining for this cluster as it is in Cluster 11. In this cluster the term appears 38 times, seven times in regard to the characters, 13 times to express adoration for the book or parts of the story, once in regard to the author, 13 times to describe the content and once in relation to reading experience. By analogy to cluster 11, it is exclusively used by readers of the Romance genre and used more often in relation to the male than the female protagonists. In contrast to the other cluster, “love” serves less in the context of character descriptions and only in one case as a depiction of experience.
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| docname | pre | key word | post |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main characters male | |||
| Sustained792596 | Chase really showed Jake’s emotions , subtly growing . I | loved | him , but he creates a bit of turmoil … |
| RoyallyMatched809927 | the perfection of Henry and Sarah ! I knew I’d | love | Henry , I knew Brent’s position in my Emma’s man |
| RoyallyMatched872433 | so sweet and charming but wild and naughty , I | loved | his flirting and his dirty , teasing mouth . But |
| Main characters female | |||
| RoyallyMatched848448 | . Lady Sarah’s story was really endearing . I really | loved | these shy girls with a romantic bone in their body |
| Characters General | |||
| RoyallyMatched809927 | the most amazing characters and I always end up in | love | and obsessed and crazy for them ! ! Royally Matched |
| RoyallyMatched818332 | . They’re so perfect for each other ! I just | loved | them together ! ♥ I laughed , I chuckled and |
| RoyallyMatched872433 | were broken and suffering in their own way . I | loved | them remeeting and the connection they had . Henry is |
| Book | |||
| Collide775077 | it has a lot of controversy around it , I | loved | it . This is a story about betrayal and suffering |
| Sustained792596 | Loved | this hard core ! Emma Chase does it again with | |
| Sustained792596 | down and enjoyed it from start to finish . I | loved | this so much and I think it hit on just |
| Sustained792596 | , he would do anything for his friends . I | love | how he met Chelsea and that instant chemistry they had |
| Sustained792596 | man Jake is . It was really wonderful . I | loved | getting to see Stanton , Sophia , and Brent as |
| RoyallyMatched809927 | . * Sighhhhhh * I think you already know I | loved | this book , like crazy . So there’s no need |
| RoyallyMatched809927 | romantic and has a great amount of drama that I | loved | with all my heart . The characters from Royally Screwed |
| RoyallyMatched848448 | got from this book . Some advice , right . | LOVED | IT ! Ok sooooo , Prince Henry and Lady Sarah |
| RoyallyMatched872433 | of swooney moments . The writing was prefect . I | loved | the fantastic build it had . This was such a |
| RoyallyMatched872433 | boy to love and grow and be fixed . I | love | that this is dual POV and we get both Henry |
| RoyallyMatched872433 | Sarah’s perspectives . They have so many hardships but I | loved | watching them come together and grow together , they’re the |
| RoyallyMatched872433 | , and becoming better versions of themselves together . I | loved | this from beginning to end . I laughed and cried |
| RoyallyMatched872433 | , and solid story filled with incredible details . I | loved | the humor and the fun but there was an undercurrent |
| Author | |||
| Sustained792596 | back tears during the last chapter and epilogue . I | love | how Emma Chase really showed Jake’s emotions , subtly growing |
| Content | |||
| Collide775077 | story about betrayal and suffering , but also one about | love | and second chances . The main plot surrounds Emily Cooper |
| Collide775077 | inserted in book with a certain purpose . Slowly a | love | triangle is formed but there were circumstances regarding the events |
| Collide775077 | Dillon’s side , no tenderness , respect and apparently no | love | . In opposition to that , Gavin loves Emily sincerely |
| Collide775077 | apparently no love . In opposition to that , Gavin | loves | Emily sincerely and will do anything to make her happy |
| Collide775077 | you . This book had one of the most intense | love | scenes I have ever read , without being too much |
| Collide775077 | , too exaggerated . It had the right amount of | love | , sensuality and passion that needed to be included in |
| Collide775077 | hot . That intensity was felt not only in the | love | scenes , but also in the relationship between Emily and |
| Sustained792596 | was such a wonderful story with caring characters who find | love | and hope amidst chaos . So heartfelt , super sexy |
| RoyallyMatched818332 | is now the future King , because his brother chose | love | over royalism ☺ But Henry never wanted the burden his |
| RoyallyMatched809927 | got to met the real Henry , the man who | loved | to play guitar , who admire his brother and grandmother |
| RoyallyMatched809927 | no other but was too afraid to disappoint , who | loved | his people and his country , and most of all |
| RoyallyMatched872433 | sweet , and witty but so full of heart and | love | . I couldn’t wait to start and dive right in |
| RoyallyMatched872433 | woven romantic tale about two broken people , falling in | love | , growing , and becoming better versions of themselves together |
| Experience | |||
| Sustained792596 | the story . This was just so fantastic ! I | love | when the world can fade away and I’m pulled into |
| Other | |||
| RoyallyMatched809927 | is get your copy of Royally Matched and fall in | love | with Henry and Sarah . And if by any chance |
| RoyallyMatched872433 | it to end all at the same time . I | loved | Royally Screwed and Prince Nicholas was fantastic but there was |
| RoyallyMatched872433 | and learn everything . I wanted that broken boy to | love | and grow and be fixed . I love that this |
The most frequent function for “love” in this cluster is to express readers’ affective attitude towards the novel and to describe its content. This reflects the fact that the connection to the characters tends to remain on a superficial surface level even though they play an important role in these reviews. This may be due to the fact that the romance novels in this cluster seem to correspond more to the genre of romantic comedies, as is also indicated in the keywords “funny”, “romantic”, “perfect”, “adorable”, “wonderful” and “sweet”.1 Another reason might be that readers in this cluster do not actually share the experiences that are depicted, but rather perceive them as a necessity to an engaging plot: “I like the awareness the writer sends here regarding domestic violence, an often element inserted in book with a certain purpose” (Collide775077); “I loved the humor and the fun but there was an undercurrent of emotion happening too and it was the prefect mix” (RoyallyMatched872433); “But those mistakes made for great drama that really helped create this full, heartfelt story.” (Sustained792596) This is also underlined by the fact that “I” is the term deemed most unlikely to appear in this cluster, which – given a representation of 10.5 times per review in this cluster versus 17.8 times in cluster 11 – could be a marker of less self implication in writing the reviews.
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Except for “horrible”, which is in few instances used to describe the feelings of one character in regard to the prospect of becoming king and leaving behind his carefree life but is only addressed briefly: “But now that he’s the future king, he knows exactly how horrible that life can be. He has so much political stuff to learn - and he hates that.” (RoyallyMatched818332) ↩