![]() ![]() Self-possessed, omnipotent alphas these are not. For those keeping score, that gives us a three out of three on “avoiding his life,” a hero who keeps falling down, a hero who can’t actually speak for a good part of the novel and a hero whose profound issues I won’t reveal because I know someone who reads this blog hasn’t read it yet. Maitland from Laura Kinsale’s Prince of Midnight and 3) Rob from Cara McKenna’s Unbound. My top three heroes ever are 1) the Duke of Jervaulx from Laura Kinsale’s Flowers from the Storm, 2) S.T. ![]() ![]() I adored it.Īs much as I would like to say that it’s fun for me when both the characters are a mess, what I love is screwed up heroes. And it doesn’t get better until about 95% of the way through the novel. Then everything falls apart in a bunch of really bad ways. The context was Jackie Ashenden’s Having Her, in which a hero with a schizophrenic mother and a heroine with a struggling business and virginity issues tumble into a fairly surprising relationship for a “best friend’s older brother” trope book. The other day, my proclivity for loving really, really broken characters and gleefully watching as an author puts them through the wringer came up in a conversation on Twitter. ![]()
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