I am taking
part in this event, hosted by the bloggers at Fiktshun, A Life Bound By Books, Confessions of a Bookaholic, Two Chicks on Books and Magical Urban Fantasy Reads. Visit any
of these links to see all the other bloggers taking part.
After re-checking my Read shelf on
Goodreads, it seems that I have read very few books actually published in 2012
this year: a whopping six titles! Of those, two were Simon’s Cat titles, one
was a fairly poor Romance and one was an anthology of Science Fiction stories
about Robots.
This leaves me with only two
characters that could even vaguely be described as ‘boyfriends’:
Barrons in Fever
Moon by Karen Marie Moning
Barrons is one of those alpha males
who is slightly repellent because of his overbearing attitude, but who is
totally mesmerizing and very, very attractive. His physically attractiveness is
counterbalanced by his biting sarcasm and dismissive attitude towards our
heroine, Mac. He is grim and appears humorless, rarely smiling and yet often
exuding a sense of barely controlled sexual tension when Mac provokes him.
There is an otherworldliness to his grace and manner of movement, which allows
him to move quickly and almost silently. Taken all together this creates an
intriguing but highly attractive package, that Mac finds difficult to resist .
. . and did I mention: he runs an epic bookstore!
Temur in Range
of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
We see Temur with two different women
in this title, but it is his devotion to Edene that shows his great potential
as a partner. She is the aggressor in their relationship and he is almost
reluctant to bed her, because he knows how short his life might be. He is very
conscious of his responsibility towards her and her family, but he fears that
he could cause them to become the target of his enemies, and this proves to be
the case when Edene is kidnapped. Determined to recover her, he sets out to
discover who has taken her and where. He is a thoughtful young man, who has
prowess with a horse and a bow, but is not the overly alpha male that we see in
Barrons. I am not so sure that he would create the same kinds of fireworks as
Barrons, but he would provide a steady, comforting love that would keep you warm
through the coldest nights.
Barrons. I LOVE HIM. I still have to read a couple of books in this series, but he's SO good and bad at the same time that it's hard not to love and hate him
ReplyDeleteHaha! Prior to becoming a blogger I didn't read very many books published in the current year either. Although Barrons is a good man to have on any list!
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It's great to read older books! I must meet Barrons! I hear a lot about him!
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I haven't read these yet, but I have heard plenty about Barron from other readers. :D I really must meet him soon.
ReplyDeleteFunny! Once I thought about ow many 2012 books I read, how well I remember the characters, and what criteria I could even use to determine what made a "good boyfriend," I decided to skip this topic! :p
ReplyDeleteI love your descriptions here, though! I was a little put off by "aggressive" and "overbearing," but running a bookstore is definitely a plus!
I thought they meant books published in 2012 OR books you read in 2012. The majority of mine were NOT published in 2012...oh well! Wasn't going to stop me from participating. I love the covers of those books and you BBs sound intriguing.
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