So technically today’s topic wants us to talk about which characters we as readers have crushes on. I don’t have very many of those, though, and instead I have a particular soft spot toward the rare functional couple in fiction. I like those couples that support each other and where both characters are good boyfriends/girlfriends, even when obstacles get in their way. In no particular order:
- Vin and Elend from the Mistborn trilogy (Brandon Sanderson)
- Zuzana and Mik from Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Laini Taylor)
- Mina and Peter from Crossed Wires (Rosy Thornton)
- Dalinar and Navani from the Stormlight Archive (Brandon Sanderson)
- Nick and Nora from The Thin Man (Dashiell Hammitt)
- Jasper and Dorian from The Girl at Midnight (Melissa Grey)
- Celia and Marco from The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
- Siri and Susebron from Warbreaker (Brandon Sanderson)
- Lazlo and Sarai from Strange the Dreamer (Laini Taylor)
- Adam and Ronan from the Raven Cycle (Maggie Stiefvater)
What are some of your favorite functional fictional couples?
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
Aww, I love Adam and Ronan!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/top-ten-tuesday-127/
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They made me so happy!
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Me too 🙂
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Oh my stars. I LOVE Marco and Celia. It’s about time I read it again, it’s been a few years. I read a short passage from them and was just reminded how adorable and tender their relationship was. Like Romeo and Juliet at their finest.
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I’m really about due for a reread as well!
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I interpreted the prompt in the same way! I don’t really have crushes on fictional characters…so I also wrote about good fictional relationships 😉
My TTT
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Yeah, I just couldn’t think of more than one or two people I’ve had a crush on in books, and mostly I tend to fall in love with the relationships themselves, rather than the characters.
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