Amanda
Book Boyfriends
A humorous look at 30 fictional men and how they're prime boyfriend material.
The layout of this book is good: each man gets an illustration, a character description, one page on why they're worth swooning over, and a quotation from their book. A couple of quizzes are included, giving the book a fun, magazine-like feel.
Where the book fails for me is in the selection of characters. Westley from The Princess Bride? Sure. Aragorn from Lord of the Rings? Why not? But Wuthering Heights's Heathcliff, the poster child for abusive stalkers? Or Pedro Muzquiz from Like Water for Chocolate, whose idea of romance is to marry a woman he doesn't love so he can have unfettered access to her sister? I get that this book is supposed to be about fantasy rather than reality, but maybe don't romanticize characters who are really abusive jerks?
Received via NetGalley.
A humorous look at 30 fictional men and how they're prime boyfriend material.
The layout of this book is good: each man gets an illustration, a character description, one page on why they're worth swooning over, and a quotation from their book. A couple of quizzes are included, giving the book a fun, magazine-like feel.
Where the book fails for me is in the selection of characters. Westley from The Princess Bride? Sure. Aragorn from Lord of the Rings? Why not? But Wuthering Heights's Heathcliff, the poster child for abusive stalkers? Or Pedro Muzquiz from Like Water for Chocolate, whose idea of romance is to marry a woman he doesn't love so he can have unfettered access to her sister? I get that this book is supposed to be about fantasy rather than reality, but maybe don't romanticize characters who are really abusive jerks?
Received via NetGalley.