Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is 10 characters everyone loves but I just don’t get.
I’m sticking with romantic leads that people love who I hate. I’m not a fan of the “alpha hero”, so this list was fairly easy to compose.
Edward Cullen from Twilight
Roarke from J.D. Robb’s In Death series
Jericho Barrons from Karen Marie Moning’s Fever series
Lothaire from Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark series
Adam from Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series
Marcus from Lisa Kleypas’ Wallflowers series
Sebastian Ballister from Loretta Chase’s Lord of Scoundrels
Noah Calhoun from Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook
Gray Rouillard from Linda Howard’s After the Night
Tamlin from Sarah J. Mass’ A Court of Thorns and Roses
I wouldn’t say I hate Tamlin. I just found him extremely boring and I needed one more person for this list.
Book Minx 
Isn’t it funny that although we can like the same books and characters a majority of the time in general with other bloggers, then there are those other times were we just don’t get why they like the books and characters they do?,
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Yeah, it’s pretty interesting! I like seeing everyone’s lists from this week and being surprised to see a few characters pop-up that I wouldn’t have expected.
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I’ve been thinking of trying the Mercy Thompson books but I’ve heard mixed things about the Adam character. Some people seem to live him and some don’t, I guess it’s that “alpha” thing. 🙂 And Edward… yeah I can see that.
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Yeah, I can’t really get into the Mercy Thompson series. I’m not into the character dynamics in that series. I prefer Briggs’ Alpha and Omega one more.
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HAHA I can relate for Edward Cullen (and because I haven’t read the other books you mentioned) T_T
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LOL yeah, I think Edward Cullen being on this list is a fairly easy one for most people to relate to.
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Is it bad that I haven’t read any of the books you mentioned except Twilight? And I wasn’t a fan of Edward either 🙂
Here’s my list if you’re interested : https://victoriajaynesbooks.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/top-ten-tuesday-40-overrated-characters/
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LOL I don’t think so. Yeah, Edward annoyed me a lot in those books. Then again, I wasn’t much of a fan of Bella either. 😛
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You don’t like two of my favorite characters, Edward and Tamlin. I’m heart my friend 😦 Just kidding, but I totally understand.
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lol It’s interesting to see who is popping up on people’s lists this week. I was surprised to see Ron from Harry Potter pop-up on several bloggers’s list that I follow.
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Hehe Edward and Tamlin are actually my preferred love interests in Twilight and ACOTAR. But I guess that’s the thing about love triangles (or potential love triangles), they’re pretty polarizing sometimes. Tamlin is a bit boring but at least he’s not a dick like Rhys is, IMO.
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Agreed, I’m not a fan of Rhys either from ACOTAR. I actually prefer Lucien.
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Adam has started growing on me, since he’s become a lot sweeter ever since marrying Mercy. But I am with you, I dislike “Alpha heroes” too often because of the gender imbalance in the relationship, and it bothers me a little to see that glorified. Tamlin is a perfect example, there were some scenes in ACOTAR where I was just shook my head thinking, “Why is Feyre even putting up with his crap?”
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Yeah, it’s the power imbalance in those relationships with “Alpha heroes” that really bother me.
Yeah, Tamlin bothered me, Rhys was the one that really bothered me the most though. He would’ve beat out Tamlin but I hadn’t heard too many people saying that they were fans of his so I didn’t feel like I could add him to the list. 😛
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I don’t like Barrons either, which is pretty shocking for some people since I love UF (and most male romantic interests in UF tend to be “alpha”). He’s just waaay too over the top! Adam from the Mercy Thompson books I do like, but then again he was kind of unbearable in the first 3 books. I guess he has an excuse because he’s *actually* an alpha, but it was still annoying.
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Barrons is incredibly over the top! It wasn’t too surprising to me though, since I had read several of KMM’s highlander romances and all the heroes there were pretty over the top as well.
I’ve heard that Adam was pretty unbearable in the first few books. I’ve only read a few of the Mercy books from the middle and he just irked me. If he’s a bigger arse in the first few novels, I don’t think I’ll go back and read those. 😛
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Does everyone love Tamlin? I know i do but I thought I was in the minority here. 😛 I can see why people would like and dislike him. My TTT
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Tamlin seems to be the preference of most of the bloggers I follow, so I assumed he was pretty well liked. However, I’m hearing that Rhys (who I dislike more) has a pretty big fan base.
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Edward also made my list, I can’t stand him!
Great Top Ten!
My TTT.
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Thanks! Yeah, Edward’s one of my most disliked characters.
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Edward was on my list too. I can see Noah Calhoun. I only saw the movie, but I didn’t really understand why everyone was swooning over him so much.
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I haven’t seen the movie “The Notebook” yet. I wasn’t a huge fan of the book, so I didn’t get around to watching the movie. I have seen a lot of people swooning over the movie interpretation of him though.
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Tamlin was on my list this week too.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/top-ten-tuesday-47/
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Glad to see I’m not the only one who didn’t really care for him. 🙂
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I don’t mind Adam particularly but I find the whole alpha male thing slightly irritating and he comes across badly in that respect at first. I like that Mercy stands up for herself though.
I also wasn’t feeling Tamlin or Feyre particularly, I liked Lucien and Rhysand.
Lynn 😀
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I liked Lucien a lot in ACoTaR. I’m tempted to read the next book in the series just for him.
Yeah, I like that Mercy stands up for herself.
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I haven’t read any of these, but I have quickly discovered that I actually like that better for this week’s theme :p I hold my breath til I get to the end, just in case someone I love is getting trashed :p
My TTT.
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LOL I don’t blame you. I’ve seen a few characters on people’s list that made me say “Nooooo.” 😛
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