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

[pbray.livejournal.com]

You know I bought the first book of hers and never read it. Is it worth digging out of the stack?

[kelly-swails.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I've only read the two. I know I really liked Bitten. It had a lot of identity angst and cool werewolf-y stuff. I'd say give it a shot.