Meet my Love Interests (and by that I mean my characters' love interests)

I wrote a little post the other day about the main characters in my WIPs, and I thought today that I’d introduce their other halves. Let’s just start, shall we? Oh, and I say ‘love interest’ because who knows if these people get together? (I honestly don’t know yet for anyone but Cora/Nate).

Usually just referred to as ‘Nate’. This guy is my favourite. He is just gorgeous and I love him more than anything in the world. Well, the only thing I love more is him and Coralie together. Did I mention he was Coralie’s boyfriend? He’s Coralie’s boyfriend. He’s sweet, and caring, and complex and he would go to the end of the Earth for Coralie. He’s just the cutest. The few friends that have read this novel have all joined the Nate fanclub…it’s on that level.

I’m just going in the same order as that other post now. So, Evan is Nellie’s love interest. He’s an interesting one. He’s a lot of things, all very contradictory. He’s both lovely and mysterious, too trusting and untrustworthy, controlled and independent, light and dark, right and wrong. He and Nellie are a complicated at the best of times.

Speaking of complicated, meet Arden’s love interest, Mima. So Arden is a detective, Mima is the victim of a crime. There’s something there, it’s all very confusing and illegal. I think I know what’s going to happen here, but spoilers.

And the worst love interest on this list goes to…LOGAN. Yep, Logan is a dickhead. Granted, Megan kind of totally deserves him. He’s manipulative like her, and incredibly messed up. He’s kind of fun to write/plan, but also terrifying.

This guy. Oh, how does one describe Mattie? He’s Vivian’s love interest and he’s very interesting. (See what I did there? I didn’t until I read back over this) His high school girlfriend disappeared one day and he’s still deeply affected by that. He’s also kind of sweet and silly which is great fun to write.

There you go. My babies’ babies, who I also refer to as my babies. I just really like being patronising to my characters… If they were real people, they’d honestly hate me for all the shit I put them through. Anyway, yep, there they are. Let me know which you’d date.

DISCUSSION: My Favourite Female Characters

I think I should start this discussion post but saying that this is list isn't all of my favourite female characters, in fact if I was going to list all of them then we'd be here for an awfully long time. I decided to do this post today because I've been thinking about female characters in YA a lot lately- a lot of them get labelled as being 'strong' just because they're kickass. Strong for me means being not just physically strong but mentally strong too. Some of these characters are physically strong, others aren't but let's get started.

1. Violet Baudelaire from A Series of Unfortunate Events
I've talked about Violet many, many times here but I just really adore her. She's definitely not physically strong, but god is she smart! Violet invents things you see, throughout the series she comes up with these brilliant inventions that save her and her siblings. Violet was one of the first characters I ever seriously loved and I think she was a great role model- I know I always wanted to be just like Violet when I grew up. (Okay, so the inventing thing totally never happened)

2. Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series
Of course no list would be complete without Miss Granger. I admit that Hermione isn't my favourite character in the entire series, but I think she's still incredibly amazing. Like Violet, she's incredibly intelligent too but she also has her flaws. (Can you tell I read these two series at the same time?) Also, Emma Watson is just a glorious human being.

3. Liesel Meminger from The Book Thief
If Liesel were a real person, I would totally adopt her as a cute younger sister- I love her that much. I know she's only young in the book but she's so incredibly strong and wise, but she's also a troublemaker. The best thing is, of course, she's a reader!

4. June Iparis from the Legend trilogy
June is one of Chami's favourite characters, and while I'm not as obsessed with her- I still think that June is a wonderful character. Again, she's extremely smart but also extremely badass. I admit, if I was ever going to live in a dystopian world, I'd want June on my side.

5. Celaena Sardothien from the Throne of Glass series
If you know me at all, you probably know that Celaena is most definitely my favourite character right now. She takes badass to a whole new level, and while she isn't exactly the nicest person- she's just so interesting to read about and I can't help but love her.

So those were the five characters I wanted to talk about today. Like I said, this is a very abridged list but I thought I'd just start with these! I hope you enjoyed this post and I will see you tomorrow with another new post :)