What character(s) are you infatuated with?

[Shanan]

I love Etienne from Anna and the French kiss too! I am also infatuated with the Valek from the Poison study series.

[[deleted user]]

I don't like Etienne because he's got too many annoying quirks, like acrophobia, and biting nails, and being short. But Valek, yes, is brilliant! He's almost more of a adult hero, but, then he is. Ha.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I actually liked that Etienne had flaws though. The author found a way to make him sound attractive, even with the flaws. Usually if I hear a guy is short I'm immediately thinking "pass," but I never once felt like Etienne was anything but beautiful.

[Gini]

Stacia *kpop stylist wrote: "I liked Barron in book 1 of curseworkers as well. Too bad he doesn't show up very much in the sequel to White Cat."

Yeah I thought Barron was sort of smoking but then I'm partial to shady guys:)

[Gwennie]

Stacia *kpop stylist wrote: "I actually liked that Etienne had flaws though. The author found a way to make him sound attractive, even with the flaws. Usually if I hear a guy is short I'm immediately thinking "pass," but I n..."

I agree with you whole heartedly. I think the flaws made him MORE attractive, in my book. Alot of people love Ash from the Iron Fey series, and I can see why, but for me the fact that he had no flaws made him boring and flat. (I much preferred Puck, hahaha.) It's the same with Etienne, because he had flaws I was able to fall in love with him.

[Heidi]

I am short too so I say bring him on! p.s. anyone who is married or been with someone for a long time knows it is best to find the flaws out up front :)

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Isn't that the truth!

[Gwennie]

for SURE!

[Brittany (finally graduated and can once again read for fun)]

Heidi I wrote: "I am short too so I say bring him on! p.s. anyone who is married or been with someone for a long time knows it is best to find the flaws out up front :)"

Amen sister!

[Heidi]

Yay the St. Clair love fest lives on!

[Mila]

I love how St. Clair has flaws. In most books I read, the guy is described as perfect, with perfect eyes, the perfect smile, the perfect hair, the perfect height... It's very refreshing to see St. Clair's shortness and crooked teeth. And it's even better that he's STILL hot despite his flaws!

[Heidi]

Mimi wrote: "I love how St. Clair has flaws. In most books I read, the guy is described as perfect, with perfect eyes, the perfect smile, the perfect hair, the perfect height... It's very refreshing to see St. ..."

You mean like Edward the perfect.

[Gwennie]

Edward was perfect, except for the fact that he was a controling maniac, lmfao!! But let's not get started.

The worst example of the 'perfect' hero for me is Ash from the Iron Fey series. That character is so perfect he's completely flat, in my opinion.

[Heidi]

I am not done with yet, but Matthew is Edward perfect and it is driving me crazy.

[Heidi]

Catie wrote: "YES. I kind of hated that book. Well, I DID hate the romance aspect of that book. Ugh. He's actually worse than Edward, IMO. So condescending..."

I just commented on your review that so far for me the book is the "educated person's Twilight" (and that is not a compliment).

[Gwennie]

Oh geez! I just bought that book!

[Heidi]

Sorry Wendy!

[Karen]

Peeta, Sam ( ), and now Lucas ( )

Not an Edward or Jacob fan- don't kill me ;)

[Gwennie]

Catie wrote: "Wendy, I don't think that you will like it. It's nothing like Outlander or The Historian (which were the two books I was constantly missing as I read it)."

I have the Historian, but haven't read it. I feel like I would really like it, but I have this... mental block on reading anything my mom likes. I think it stems from her FINALLY reading Outlander after I begged her for years and then her turning to me halfway through and going, "It's alright. It's a bit juvenile and her writing isn't very good." In a snide insulting way. Now, whenver she wants me to read something I just feel myself bristling... it's a hurdle I have a hard time getting past.

[Gini]

Is the historian any good? I got it from the library and was put off by the huge length, is it worth reading?

[Gini]

Thanks I heard as a rumor that the father and daughter in the book have an interesting relationship, is that true?

[Gini]

I'm not sure just that they were close and interesting that they had a cool dynamic.

[Gini]

So I'm almost done with Catching Fire and I have a major crush on Finnikan. I know it won't turn out well but i can't seem to help myself.

[Heidi]

Finnick is swoon worthy

[Brittany (finally graduated and can once again read for fun)]

Gini, I love Finnick as well!

[Shanan]

I have heard the audiobooks four the outlanders series are awesome if the book length is intimidating. ;-)

[Gwennie]

Catie wrote: "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, she didn't!!!

I would feel the same way, Wendy. I gave my mom Outlander a few years back...and she became just as addicted as I am. She actually went and s..."

I'm sure you can imagine the burst of anger I felt. Yes, I would have preferred if she loved it as much as I did, but I've recommended it to people before who didn't love it. I didn't care that couldn't get into it. But to say something that was both so untrue (Juvenile and poorly written) and so insulting... well yeah.

I do have the Historian on my shelf, she bought me a copy, so I'm sure I'll read it eventually. I just won't tell her. (Its the same reason I haven't started The Help, lol.)

[Heidi]

Wendy that is just horrible! Doesn't your mom know if you can't find something nice to say don't say it. You can say you don't like something without being so overt about it!

[Becca]

And without insulting the intelligence of the person who recommended it.

[Gwennie]

Especially because she knows it's been my favorite book since I was about 16 years old, lol. Yeah.

Well, that's just my mom. She can be super sweet most of the time and really funny, we're actually pretty close now that I'm an adult, but then when she's in a bad mood she's all acid. When I was in highschool she told me I did my make-up too strong and looked like Hachet Face from Cry-baby. My sister wore a skirt that my mom thought was too short, so she told her she looked like a Hooker... Then she wonders why we get so upset and our feelings hurt. She's a conundrum, god love her.

[[deleted user]]

Imagine that! Someone ripping apart a book that someone else loves. That never happens around here. ;)

Right now, I'm loving Noel from and .

[Gwennie]

That's the curse of the rabid fans... or critic, I suppose.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Don't even get me started on moms and their opinions. If it's not a clean or inspirational romance, my mom isn't touching it. I try to strike up general conversations with her about books and it's like I'm speaking a foreign language to her. I have better luck with my teen son who barely reads because at least he somewhat gets what I'm talking about.

Anytime someone says they don't like Outlander, I am more than able to say that I understand why they couldn't get into it, even if I loved the book.

Outlander is one of those love or hate series. There is no middle ground for most people.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Shannen wrote: "Imagine that! Someone ripping apart a book that someone else loves. That never happens around here. ;)..."

Shannen, cmere. I wanna hug you. :)

[Becca]

Hahaha! I'm one of those middle-grounders on Outlander. I didn't absolutely love it, though I did think Claire was pretty cool and Jaimie was dead sexy. I also thought the concept was really interesting and the love story after the marriage was very compelling. But for two reasons I couldn't love it, first I'm a prude so some of the sex scenes made me extremely uncomfortable and the violent ones actually made me retch a bit. The second was the, in my opinion, absolute ridiculous reasoning behind Claire marrying Jaimie in the first place. I couldn't swallow it, and it left me with lingering eye-rolling at Claire's reasoning throughout the series. Just my opinion, but wanted to let you know there are the middle-grounders out there.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

You may be one of the first! I'd wear that like a badge of honor.

I often middle ground a lot of love or hate series. My opinions are just odd...

Outlander - (view spoiler)[the m/m rape scenes were hard to read (hide spoiler)]

[Becca]

Stacia I completely agree with your spoiler. I had a super hard time with those and it put me off the series for quite a while.

[[deleted user]]

Stacia...dot, dot, dot wrote: "Shannen, cmere. I wanna hug you. :)"

Aww, so sweet! Sometimes you gotta wear a flame retardant suit around here. :)

[Gwennie]

They were absolutely agree with the spoiler. It was very hard to read. The rest of it I didn't have a problem with. I never doubted the reason behind the marriage.

I don't expect everyone to love it. My sister only was a middle-grounder with it. She thought that the description was too much. It wasn't that she wasn't a raving mad fan like me, it was that she knew she was insulting me.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I love the books, but Gabaldon is even wordier than I am. Historical fiction is great, but even I was skimming past a lot of the clan lineage stuff.

Although, it was very cool getting to see how she used herbs as medicine, and how they managed to go about with day to day affairs. For some reason, I was randomly fascinated by how Claire managed to find berries and other things to supplement for the lack of vitamin C in their diet. Strange, I know...

[Heidi]

Shannen wrote: "Imagine that! Someone ripping apart a book that someone else loves. That never happens around here. ;)

Right now, I'm loving Noel from [bookcover:The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appoin..."

Hey! I resemble that remark! Anywho I am not related to Wendy and I try to be lighthearted in my snarky opinions about books I don't like.

[[deleted user]]

I like lighthearted and snarky! Some others aren't so lighthearted.

[Heidi]

Shannen wrote: "I like lighthearted and snarky! Some others aren't so lighthearted."

Oh yes. I know! Sometimes people need to step away from the keyboard :)

[[deleted user]]

Heidi I wrote: "Shannen wrote: "Oh yes. I know! Sometimes people need to step away from the keyboard :)"

I agree!

[Gwennie]

I know you two are talking about me.... sniff sniff... now I'm offended! ;)

[Heidi]

Wendy F wrote: "I know you two are talking about me.... sniff sniff... now I'm offended! ;)"

Oh please! You are the last person I was referring to.

[[deleted user]]

Wendy F wrote: "I know you two are talking about me.... sniff sniff... now I'm offended! ;)"

Haha! Not at all!

[Gwennie]

HAHAHA!!! I couldn't resist teasing!

[Jody]

Character crushes, hm... I've had so many... why can't I remember more???

I have to agree about Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables. Ahhh Gilbert (especially the TV miniseries one!)

It's not a YA series, but Richard Jury from Martha Grimes' mysteries, and Sam du Gheyn from her Hotel Paradise trilogy. Yeah... I'd marry Sam du Gheyn in a heartbeart. Probably Richard Jury too. We can be bigamous in our book crushes, right?

[Gini]

Edward from the Anita Blake series.