Last week I wrote about flawed characters. This week I want to mention love at first sight. Do you believe in it? Can you fall in love with someone at first sight if they are not an alpha or do you think of them as an alpha because of the attraction?
In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Jane was not pretty and Mr. Rochester was not handsome. They did not fall in love at first sight, but there was an attraction. In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennett is not beautiful, but Mr. Darcy is handsome and rich. Yet if Elizabeth was interested at first she soon overcame the attraction. It wasn't until later in these books when heroines and heroes truly knew each other that they fell in love.
Today gender fiction gives us different characters; characters who are flawed in some way, but not in their appearance. In Allison Chase's Most Eagerly Yours, Laurel Sutherland is a beautiful woman who falls in love with handsome Aidan Phillips. And in Jean C. Gordon's, My Lady Viking, Kara Thorddatter (a beautiful Viking warrior) falls in love with handsome Aedan Hakonson. In both cases the heroes and heroines are attracted to each other at first sight. That attraction helps carry them through the complications of the rest of the books.
Do you prefer to see characters who are alphas and fall in love in the beginning of the book? Or do you prefer, as in Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte's books, falling in love after the characters get to know each other?
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