Torn between two lovers, yawn.

[pbray]

Being sick over the weekend paid off a dividend as I finished Wraith by Phaedra Weldon. Which I thoroughly enjoyed, right up until the ending.

Part of the book's appeal for me was that the heroine had a single love interest. It's now a cliche in urban fantasy that the heroine is torn between at least two competing love/sex interests, usually one tied to the paranormal world and the other part of her mundane existence. Sometimes it's a good boy/bad boy split, other times they are both equally worthy (or flawed).

I tried to think of a recent urban fantasy with a female protagonist that didn't fit this pattern and came up blank. Can anyone else come up with one?

ETA: libwitch for the win by being the first to come up with an example and reminding me of suricattus's Retrievers series.

Comments

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

well, I think Patricia Briggs character in her series (the shapechanger) is torn between two Supers, neither really better then the other....

And then of course there is Anita Blake, who apparently is no longer torn between anyone, because she simply sleeps with them all anyway.

Ummmm....Viki Petersons Zodiac series - no real love backstory there at all. And there is the Retreivers series, where she is quite solidly with one guy (Sergei)....And the Kitty series, who is very much with Billy, a werewolf/lawyer.

I think I need to stop reading from this genre.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

*head thunk* I totally forgot about suricattus's Retrievers series. You rule.

[lagilman]

she does, indeed. :-)

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

My god, I think I am going to have create a new customs friends group - authors. Cuz this one is going on my friends list.

You can't try to keep them all straight - I only do it because I keep three journals of books (here, goodreads.com, and a written one). You have to write them too! I don't do that at least.

And now I know your new series won't contain a love triangle...

[pbray.livejournal.com]

The only triangle will be means, motive & opportunity :-)