Characters Everyone Loves – Except Me

Rowena recently posted about characters she hates. I have a long list of characters I hate, too. This post is about the characters I hate yet who everyone else seems to love.

Derek Craven from Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas – Everyone always goes on and on about Derek and Sara, but the truth is they both drove me crazy. Sara, with all her running around like a moron thinking she’s safe in London, was TSTL 99% of the time and Derek was way too EMO for my tastes.

Roarke from the In Death Series by Nora Roberts – Now, before you decide to flog me..it isn’t that I don’t love Roarke, because I do. It’s just I don’t read the series for Roarke. I read it for Eve. She’s amazing! She’s a total badass. Roarke is just..an added bonus. Though I will say in the more recent books, Roarke has lost a lot of appeal for me. He often comes across as a placeholder than anything else. It’s depressing. (Disclaimer: I am behind about 7 books, so things may have improved with him.)

Brodick from Julie Garwood’s Ransom – Mostly I spent the novel wanting to either junk punch him or karate chop him in the neck. Brodick and I are not friends. The dirty, underhanded way he manipulated Gillian makes me rage-y this day.

Daphne Bridgerton from The Duke and I by Julia Quinn – That sperm stealing, no-apologizing hooker! Okay, she wasn’t that bad, but I couldn’t get over her lack of remorse for what she’d done. While Simon acted the fool, too, at least he had the good grace to feel sorry for it later. Daphne just went on her merry way.

Sam Starrett from Gone Too Far by Suzanne Brockmann – Look, I just like my heroes to not throw up and/or cry every 5 seconds. Once in a while? Okay, fine. But all the time? Notsomuch. 

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