Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. Every week they post a new Top Ten book related list. Check 'em out to play along.
Top Ten Most Frustrating Characters Ever
- Ever from Evermore by Alyson Noel. She remains frustratingly shallow to the bitter end.
- Quincie from Tantalize & Miranda from Eternal both by Cynthia Leitich-Smith. See #1. Please, the world needs no more self-centered ya heroines.
- Winona from True Colors by Kristin Hannah. Whiny, bitchy, jealous and terribly insecure and she doesn't grow out of it.
- Raven from Dark Prince by Christine Feehan. She wins the prize for most frustratingly naive and pliable heroine I've read in recent years. Whenever she showed a little backbone Mr. Dark Prince convinced her she was wrong and his way was the only way.
- Nicholas Van Tassle from All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve. Frustratingly pompous, insecure, prissy, jealous and judgmental. I read pages and pages hoping he'd change and learn something but NO.
- Anita Blake from the later installments in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. I know this is a no brainer. The earlier Anita was a tough, monster-slaying, self-sufficient woman with a snarky attitude. She could say NO to the sexy beasts who attempted to woo her. Sadly she morphed into a sex-starved, power hungry, unlikable beeyatch as the series goes on. Oh and she lost her dark sense of humor somewhere along the line too.
- Kendra from Capture the Rainbow by Iris Johansen. She is a grown woman just too stupidly naive to breathe.
- Hope from Wolfe's Hope by Laura Leigh. Wolfe treats her like crapola and her vagina weeps for him anyway.
- Sophie from Fire and Ice by Julie Garwood. Her character is frustratingly inconsistent. She fakes being materialistic and shallow? Why on earth would you?
- Wyatt & Adele from A Healer's Bond by Raelynn Blue. She's an ER nurse but acts like a silly sex starved woman and she's mean, more black-hearted than myself, even. He frustrated me with his undying devotion to such an ugly-inside person. Why, man, why? There are many women who would love you, enormous sword or no.
Later Anita Blake made my list, too--it's so disappointing to remember what an awesome character she was in earlier books like The Laughing Corpse and The Lunatic Cafe and then to read a book where she's nothing more than a mindless sex slave...ugh! If I wanted that, I'd read the Meredith Gentry series!
ReplyDeleteIt is so sad. I've been rereading the series on audio and have almost reached the point where the "must feed the ardeur" takes over the old Anita. I'm going to try to look for the positives while revisiting the books because I do want to read the newest ones but it may be a struggle.
DeleteEver and Raven, agreed, blech! :) They felt like the side characters in their own stories.
ReplyDeleteHere's my Top Ten for the week. Happy reading!