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Brooding Hero, Charming Hero, Contemporary, Favorable Read, Harlequin, Harlequin Older Books, Marriage of convenience, Review, Scarred Heroine, Toe Curler!! Lynne Graham Leave a comment Format: E-BookRead with: Kindle PaperwhiteLength: NovelGenre: Contemporary RomancePOV: Third Person, SingleSeries...
Animal Protagonists in Picture Books Posted on14 Aug 2024 Writing a picture book with an animal protagonist hasn’t exactly been a goal of mine, but I’ve certainly played around with it several times, for various story ideas. While playing, I spent some time wondering about when and why ...
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine might be one of the more shocking indie books on this list, featuring an unlikeable anti-hero protagonist, and we’re here for it. This family drama is a wild ride of absurdity overcasting a real sense of tragedy. Underneath Rosa’s overbearing obno...
A solid story that missed something in connecting me with the two protagonists, neither of which I loved very much. Its a solid book and a unique story, worth the read but IMHO not worth the hype. Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs Just like David Sedaris Augusten Burroughs is ...
He is the ultimate journalist-hero, killed trying to get all the facts, and, in this, his final story, providing his paper with sensational ‘copy’. There was a time when journalists were heroes, celebrated for exposing corruption in politics and big business, even bringing down a US ...
Are you looking for amoral protagonists, anti-heroes, and complexly drawn characters stumbling their way through a world of muted greys (and corpses)? Are you a dark lord who has plenty of minions and not enough heroes to kill? Or maybe you are dealing with a particularly plucky band of ...
Argument with the East Wind was preceded by two novels whose spinster protagonists ended up in less happy places. In She Alas! (1965), Jane Franckis is a Canadian woman living in a small town south of London who’s never moved on from being left by her dashing RAF pilot lover. She ga...
and what the difference is between likeable and admirable. Fiction (to say nothing of history) is full of protagonists we might not like but can still respect and admire. Heroes whose achievements we celebrate but whom, given the chance to sit down and have a beer with, we’d just as so...
Howl’s Moving Castle introduces us to the titular wizard, Howl, who shares his black-turreted, physics-defying home with prickly fire demon, Calcifer. But despite this charismatic pair, the real hero of the story is Sophie Hatter, who looks far older than her eighteen years thanks to a ...