What things do you like to see a hero do in books that you end up loving?

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Loves 'Em Lethal]

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[~Jennifer~]

I love when the hero starts off distancing himself emotionally and protesting to any attraction/feelings and then something happens to where he has to rush into action completely undoing all his work and proving he's already invested and is really a big mushy marshmallow on the inside even though he just killed all the villains with a thimble and flower petal...i always end up sighing loudly with a big goofy smile so my husband thinks i'm nuts all over again.

[Arch]

The tough bad boy always melt when it comes to the heroine.

[Sandy]

Arch wrote: "The tough bad boy always melt when it comes to the heroine."

I agree, and he would be willing to fight for her as well. But, it's also important, at least for me, to have male character who is intelligent. Good looks and brawn are useless, if you can't be charmed by what the man has to say, as well.

Parallel Triangle

[Arch]

Sandy,

I agree the bad boy must be intelligent.

[Ashley]

Arch wrote: "Someone has been walking in my head. I was going to do a similiar thread on this line a couple of days ago, but changed my mind.


My answers:

* Hero tells the heroine that he loves her, even..."

Well-said! Definitely something I would say too.

[Katya]

I love when a hero tentatively takes steps into an area of his life that involves opening up to or trusting the heroine.

I love possessive heroes who although might have bad tempers, are softies on the inside. (at least with the heroine)

I love sarcastic, funny heroes who strattle the line of being a gentleman.

I love heroes who are sure of themselves, are anti-wimpy, strong, determined and tenacious.

I love heroes who got it going on....in the bedroom department.

I love heroes who think the heroine looks beautiful even in the morning with her bedhead and with a hang-over....even if she looks as though she just scrubbed the toilet and cleaned the house...all he sees is beauty.

I love heroes who will always be there and the heroine can depend on him.

I also love tortured heroes and "beauty and the beast" scenarios.

[[deleted user]]

I love a hero who is obsessed with the heroine in a good way ....... alpha alpha alpha

[Teresa]

I love pretty much everything you already said in a hero- but I also love heroes who are a little bit strange: hardcore alpha Marines quoting Shakespeare, being gentle and soft sometimes, nice to children, able to cook, not ashamed to cry...contradictions tend to make me more interested in a male character.
I just read a book about a male stripper who was a biologist living in an old mansion with countless birds, caring gently for them- damn, what a fascinating guy he was!

[Dina]

My favorite is the one who is possessive and somewhat obsessed with his lady... who will give her commands only because he can't seem to help himself... and I can call him Fifty ;)

[Katya]

~Megan~ wrote: "I'm not always the greatest fan of virgin heroes....it really all depends on how he's written. I don't like a lot of fumbling and awkwardness LOL"

He is my favorite virgin hero

[Katya]

~Jennifer~ wrote: "I love when the hero starts off distancing himself emotionally and protesting to any attraction/feelings and then something happens to where he has to rush into action completely undoing all his wo..."

Jen is your husband that type of hero?

[Kristy]

~Megan~ wrote: "I'm going to make a confession....I did not like Outlander.

I couldn't even finish it, I hated it that bad."


I unfortunately had the same issue there. I just could get into it.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Loves 'Em Lethal]

You guys said it so well! Let me just second you!

[Kristy]

I love all the reasons posted on here. I think someone posted and hit on this already but,

I love when the hero feels that he is such a bad guy and he really doesn't deserve her he decides to leave her. Only to realize that he can't live without her. Sometimes it takes him months but eventually he realizes it.

This tends to get me all the time.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Loves 'Em Lethal]

Me too, Kristy!

[Grace]

I think you guys nailed what I love in a hero. I'll also add I love it when the hero doesn't want to tell the heroine he loves her straight out so he finds other ways to say it..like waiting to whisper it in her ear whilst she's asleep. omg swoon!!

Aswell as, the jealous, protective, possessive, tortured alpha? YES PLEASE. :)

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Loves 'Em Lethal]

Tyraa, we are totally on the same page!

[Grace]

Good minds think alike. Now, just need to find me a hero with ALL these characteristics and I'm set.

[Remy]

These are all so great and reminding me of some classics I need to pull out and re-read. One of my favorite heroes is the alpha who sees the heroine in a bad situation in the beginning of the story and has to step in to help because she is his best friend's sister or some other connection to him. I love that he feels responsible for her safety. Plus the fact that tihs is often accomplished by carrying the heroine out of wherever she's in trouble (if she's spunky that is) doesn't hurt. A good example would be Cam and Mia in Too Wilde to Tame by Janelle Denison. Love.
Hmmm this is making me think I want to try my hand at this kind of hero...

[Arch]

Remy wrote: "These are all so great and reminding me of some classics I need to pull out and re-read. One of my favorite heroes is the alpha who sees the heroine in a bad situation in the beginning of the story..."

Are you thinking about writing a story Remy?

[Kryptonite]

I pretty much agree with everything you guys said.


* I love when both hero & heroine tease each other and they have that easy going relationship

* I love when the hero gets the heroine to blush

* I'm all for the hero being intelligent

* I love the possessive hero trait but to a limit and when he goes all 'MINE!' on the heroine

* Handy and protective and definitely what Tryaa just mentioned

[Katya]

Funny, Great sense of humor, Moody but knows when to be sweet and comforting to the heroine.

I like when he plays Hard to get but very possessive at the same time.

I like when a hero let's a heroine tease him (verbally) but is all animal to anyone else. (kinda like those pictures you've all seen where a kitten can climb up on top and scratch up a big mean old dog but no one else can go near him.)

[Kryptonite]

Agree with you completely.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Loves 'Em Lethal]

I love a grumpy hero with a sweet heroine--sort of like Beauty and the Beast.

[Remy]

Arch, I am currently working on a story. I have one already released with Elloras Cave and another in editing with them. After posting yesterday, I was thinking that it might be fun to turn the tables on a hero and have the heroine rescue him from a sticky situation. I'm sure it would lack the sexy punch of the hero saving her but it has potential to be very funny.

[Arch]

Remy wrote: "Arch, I am currently working on a story. I have one already released with Elloras Cave and another in editing with them. After posting yesterday, I was thinking that it might be fun to turn the tab..."

I have a story that I will get back to, after I finish my interracial dangerous bad boy story, Trespassing - it's called His Bodyguard and it's interracial as well. The heroine is the hero's bodyguard.

[Delaney]

Hi all, I've been in the group a couple of weeks but haven't spoken up until now. *waves*

All the comments are great; especially the "jealous, protective, possessive, tortured alpha." Yes!

Another thing I like is when the protective hero saves the heroine somehow. It's corny as hell, but I still love it. In Highlander Untamed by Monica McCarty, Rory shows up in time to save Isabel from being raped by the disgusting member of an enemy clan.

Another thing I like that this hero exemplified is that state of confusion heroes experience when they're bound and determined not to care about the heroine, but find themselves falling for her anyway, no matter how much they fight it.

Everything she does, wears, says drives him crazy with lust and he becomes borderline obsessed with her. He's hard-pressed to figure out what's wrong, so he becomes even colder and distant as he tries to keep himself in check. That was Rory MacLeod in this book for sure.

[~Megan~]

Aaaaand that book just went on my TBR pile lol!!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Loves 'Em Lethal]

Delaney said: Another thing I like that this hero exemplified is that state of confusion heroes experience when they're bound and determined not to care about the heroine, but find themselves falling for her anyway, no matter how much they fight it.

Everything she does, wears, says drives him crazy with lust and he becomes borderline obsessed with her. He's hard-pressed to figure out what's wrong, so he becomes even colder and distant as he tries to keep himself in check.

I love that kind of hero. Sounds like an Anne Stuart hero to me.

Welcome, Delaney!

[Remy]

Arch, that sounds awesome! I love books where the bodyguard and his guardee fall in love. Best of luck to you! I like the title of your other as well.

[Jill]

Hmmm I have to say I love them when they get irrationally jealous and possessive. Don't know why, it would probably drive me nuts in real life. But in books its a real winner for me:-)

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Loves 'Em Lethal]

Ditto, Jill.

[Arch]

Remy wrote: "Arch, that sounds awesome! I love books where the bodyguard and his guardee fall in love. Best of luck to you! I like the title of your other as well."

Thanks Remy.

[Arch]

Delaney wrote: "Hi all, I've been in the group a couple of weeks but haven't spoken up until now. *waves*

All the comments are great; especially the "jealous, protective, possessive, tortured alpha." Yes!

Anoth..."

Welcome Delaney. Rory sounds dangerous. :)

[Delaney]

Lol, Megan, you're going to fall in love with Rory. I did.

Thanks for the welcome, Danielle and Arch. Danielle, I still haven't read an Anne Stuart book, but I will. Maybe I'll get around to it this year.

Arch, Rory is dangerous. He's a great warrior and leader of his clan. And he's honorable, too. I felt Ms. McCarty did a really good job.

[Arch]

That's good to hear Delaney. Thanks.

[Kryptonite]

Sounds like it could be a good book... I'll check it out. Thanks and welcome!

[Jamie]

I don't know if this is an attribute I enjoy seeing in the hero as much as the heroine, but I like it when the hero is usually unshaven and ruff looking however the heroine is more refined and sophisticated. Then for whatever reasons he find himself having to enter her world and hates but ends up looking fantastic and all his attention is on her. These are my favorites.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Loves 'Em Lethal]

Sort of a reverse Pygmalion, Jamie?

I love a rough around the edges hero, Jamie.

[Jill]

I have to say I have been thoroughly enjoying all of Kristen Ashley's Heros. So whatever they are ,that is what I love!

[Silver]

Hi everyone. I just loved this thread so much that I wanted to participate.

Reading all the posts left me smiling and restless. Smiling because I loved the descriptions. But restless too because I am not able to read the books with the heroes mentioned here.

Danielle, can you list the books in which such scenes occur? I know that wouldn't be easy, but please help? Can others also mention the book names if possible?

[Nadine]

I love most of what has already been mentioned, but one thing that makes me melt on my couch while reading with a big, fat swoony smile on my face is when after a fight or some other external issue that made the heroine withdraw from the hero (because she thinks she lost him for whatever reason), she is holed up with friends/family, trying to forget him, and he unexpectedly shows up and has the guts to court her/apologize to her in front of her whole family and friends. That. Gets. Me. Every. Time. <3

[Arch]

Nadine wrote: "I love most of what has already been mentioned, but one thing that makes me melt on my couch while reading with a big, fat swoony smile on my face is when after a fight or some other external issue..."

That's always a good scene.

[Fashionista]

*I agree with many of you. I like when the heroine makes the kick ass Alpha male hero blush. *sighs* *swoons*

[Fashionista]

Arch wrote: "Yes, Courtney. I agree about the virgin heroes."

Yep, there is something so sexy and tender about the virgin Heroes!

[Arch]

Fashionista wrote: "Arch wrote: "Yes, Courtney. I agree about the virgin heroes."

Yep, there is something so sexy and tender about the virgin Heroes!"

I agree.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Loves 'Em Lethal]

Hi Silver. My comments are fairly general. I suck at remembering specific quotes and scenes. Hopefully those who have posted will go back and reference the book they got specific scenes from to help you out.

[Silver]

Lady Danielle aka The Book Huntress wrote: "Hi Silver. My comments are fairly general. I suck at remembering specific quotes and scenes. Hopefully those who have posted will go back and reference the book they got specific scenes from to h..."

Thanks for the comment, Danielle. I hope so too.

[Jena]

*Hero makes some sacrifice to protect the heroine.*
*Hero avenges a slight to the heroine in some no-holds-barred way emphasizing his dominance, then turns "marshmallow" in her presence in order to soothe her.*