I know that we have a Last Hero Standing contest going on right now but that’s just for voting. I’d like to have a discussion on why our favorite heroes are our favorite heroes. I’d also like to see more of a discussion instead of just, I LOVE IAIN BECAUSE HE’S SMEXY! It’s got to be more than that.
Because this author is near and dear to our hearts, we want to give her a good author spotlight of a month so have some fun with us. Tell us why your favorite JG hero is your favorite hero.
This is without a doubt a really hard question for me since there are so many wonderful JG heroes to choose from. How can you possibly have just one, right? If you’ve got more than one then by all means, share them all with us!
With heroes like Iain Maitland, Brodick Buchanan, Alec Kincaid, Connor McAllister, it’s easy to see why women fall in love with Julie Garwood’s stories. Her heroes are special, they’re protective and they’re possessive (in the best ways of course) and when they fall in love with their women, there is nothing in this world that they wouldn’t do for them. Whether it’s saving them from the different clans that they want to go to war with them or moving to England to make them happy, her heroes generally rock the hell out!
Because I’m a huge McSlut when it comes to these men, it surprises me that my favorite hero for JG has always been constant. It’s Connor McAllister from The Wedding.
There are many reasons why Connor is my favorite JG Hero. One of those reasons is the way his character was built up from beginning to end. To see the way his childhood formed the man that he became was interesting because not only did his childhood rule his adulthood, his childhood and the vengeful spirit that he carried with him WAS his life. It was the only thing he lived for. He was this proud and bitter man who let his hatred fill every part of him that he didn’t think he was good enough for anything until he avenged his father. The burden that must have been to carry all those years had to have been such a pain but carry it he did.
What I loved most about Connor’s character was the change we saw in him over the course of the book. He was so bent on revenge that he didn’t realize that he didn’t have much of life outside of his thirst for avenging his father. It took one small woman to come into his life and slowly change his way of thinking and at the end of the book when she asks him if he would ever ask something like the revenge he was chasing of their son and when he quickly said, no, I sighed because it was such a relief!
When I used to discuss this book with other JG lovers, one of the main gripes about Connor was that he was too harsh but to me, it made me love him all the more because he overcame all of his hardness and softened toward Brenna and the lengths he went to get his wife back made me a puddle of lust at his feet.
He truly was one of a kind.
So tell us, who’s YOUR favorite JG hero and why?
I know I enjoyed all the heros but I have a notoriously bad memory and I quickly forget heros and heroines. However, the JG that did remain imprinted in my mind. It’s Iain Maitland. I loved loved how he did not give up on her and followed her when she went to her dad (if i remember correctly). The Secret was my first JG book and it was refreshing not to see the hero and heroine separate for a time but stick with each other to the end. As i read her other medievals i saw that all her men acted like this which is one of the many reasons i love her books.
This is a really hard question. I loved all of JG’s Medieval heroes because of their strength, honor, courage, and reluctant vulnerability to the women who capture their hearts. I love that they are possessive, protective, and self-sacrificing.
One supporting hero that I really wish JG would write a book for is Quinlan from THE WEDDING. He tells Faith at the end, “Tell your mother I will be coming back. She has something I want.” I would like to read Quinlan and Faith’s story!