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Great list! I especially love the Charley Davidson series! Chick is kick ass and hilarious!

And at the top of the list we have Mac Lane. For the love of all the PNR, the girl is a child. She's silly, she's childish, she's immature. Don't misunderstand, she is a well written character, but she sits on top of her throne and whines about how young and innocent she was, and she never learns. She is in no way a kick-ass heroin. A kick-ass heroin should be motivated, well trained, confident, practical and smart.

Kenterol wrote: "And at the top of the list we have Mac Lane. For the love of all the PNR, the girl is a child. She's silly, she's childish, she's immature. Don't misunderstand, she is a well written character, but..."

Mac is definitely kick-ass material, imo. Like one of my fave authors says (Amelia Hutchins) 'no one starts a badass'. KMM made it no secret that Mac began as a soft-shelled, pink, self-obsessed coward that was more concerned with decorating the world than saving it. But she blossomed to a beast that she was! And it was innate, yet still progressive (complete with pitfalls where she was at someones mercy)! Naturally, I wanted Mac to have the last laugh all the time but the richness of her character and the story would have been lost.

She transformed so much that her biggest problem was to NOT save the day. She doesn't have the typical heroine highlight reel but she is indubitably only of my favorte badass baes!