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.

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[reannon.livejournal.com]

Mine! :) ABADDON (http://www.cerridwenpress.com/productpage.asp?ISBN=9781419911224) features a female protagonist with a life partner and a male best friend, but there is no romance between her and her friend whatsoever. Love triangles are fun to an extent, but should not be the sole purpose for the story, particularly in urban fantasy.

(The first book in the series, NOCTURNAL URGES, did fit this pattern, but the second is more of a political thriller and star-crossed romance without the triangle aspect.)

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Cool, sounds interesting.