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My Characters Will Never Be Perfect
I do not write perfect people. I never will.
Perfect characters are a kind of lie, and readers can feel it. The flawless heroine who always says the right thing. The love interest with no real edges. The villain who is cruel for no reason a human would recognize. They are easy to write and impossible to believe, because no one you have ever loved was that simple.
The people I write make bad calls. T Read more of this blog post »
Perfect characters are a kind of lie, and readers can feel it. The flawless heroine who always says the right thing. The love interest with no real edges. The villain who is cruel for no reason a human would recognize. They are easy to write and impossible to believe, because no one you have ever loved was that simple.
The people I write make bad calls. T Read more of this blog post »
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Kris Maddox has written something harder to pull off than it looks: a memoir that's genuinely funny and genuinely honest, without sacrificing one for the other. The premise is simple. A couple sells everything, leaves their perfectly curated North Ame ...more |
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It feels a little absurd to review your own book. And yet here we are, because Goodreads will keep asking and I will keep feeling judged by the notification. So, honestly? I wrote this book for the people who needed it — the ones whose stories are too ...more |
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| Jojo Moyes set an impossible task for herself with Me Before You — to write a love story where love is not enough — and she pulled it off completely. Will and Louisa are one of fiction's great pairings precisely because their relationship refuses to ...more | |
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| If I Stay is deceptively simple and devastatingly effective. Forman takes an impossible premise — a girl hovering between life and death, watching both — and uses it to ask what we live for, and whether love is reason enough. Mia's voice is gentle an ...more | |
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| Jenny Han understands something important about romantic fantasy: that the letters we write and never send reveal more about us than anything we actually say out loud. Lara Jean is a wonderfully specific protagonist — not universally relatable but pr ...more | |
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