Torn between two lovers, yawn.

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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.

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[difrancis.livejournal.com]

Jeaniene Frost's Halfway to the Grave? I think. Dog Days by John Levitt.

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Hmm, I'll have to take a look at Halfway to the Grave.

DOG DAYS is inching forward to the top of the stack, and I'm looking forward to it simply because it's a male protagonist, as a change of pace.

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

Dog Days is cute.....I posted a review up in my journal about it - you can use the Good Readds link in my sidebar at the bottom to find it.

And that reminds me of some other series, both with male leads -- one is still newer....Unshapely Things by Mark De Franco (I think), but only one book out so far.

The Dresden Files books of course. Dresden can't keep a love interest for any length of time, much less capable of getting a triangle going.

And the series by Rob Thurman (Moonlight or Moonshine was the first one) - one brother has a vampire love interest, but no triangle; and the second brother has a love interest that is not quite off the ground.

But, yeah all male protagonists - I wonder if that is why there isn't a triangle?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't recall that many triangles with male protags, so I think the cliche is on the female protag side of the fence.

And thanks for the Dog Days review--that book is definitely going in the read on plane stack.

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Err that was me.