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]

*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 :-)