Ramblings From This Chick: RFTC Hall Pass Event with Samantha Young

Sunday, April 12, 2015

RFTC Hall Pass Event with Samantha Young

Samantha Young is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author from Stirlingshire, Scotland. She's been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award 2012 for Best Author and Best Romance for her international bestseller ON DUBLIN STREET and Best Romance 2014 for BEFORE JAMAICA LANE. ON DUBLIN STREET is Samantha's first adult contemporary romance series and has sold in twenty-eight countries.

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My favorite heroes in fiction are actually a mix of heroes and anti-heroes. I do like a good anti-hero!

My heroes:

1. Dimitri from Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series. I love the paranormal and urban fantasy genre and it’s hard to pick a favorite hero from it, but this is a series that I read once a year. It’s one of my favorites and Dimitri is the quintessential paranormal hero. He’s brooding, he’s surprisingly funny (he’s so brooding you don’t expect him to be!), he’s powerful, he’s loyal, insanely principled, kind, open-minded, dedicated to the rules of his status and yet passionate enough to bend those rules for the woman he loves.

2. Atticus Finch from Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. This one is a no-brainer. Hailed as the ‘most enduring fictional image of racial heroism’, Atticus Finch is one of the most famous heroes in American literature. A man of compassion, courage and an unwavering sense of justice, Atticus taught me a lot as a child when I read Mockingbird, and as such remains one of my favorite heroes of all time.

3. Todd from Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking Trilogy. Todd is not a romantic hero as he’s only a young teen, but he’s a hero for the ages. As a young boy he is courageous, loyal, smart and gutsy. Very few characters make me wish I was their best friend, but if I had been stuck in Todd’s world I would have wanted to be in on his adventure with him.

My anti-hero heroes:

1. Jericho Z Barrons from Karen Marie Monings Fever Series. Barrons is convoluted, mercurial, secretive, distrusting and sometimes downright scary. He is also, however, dry-witted, powerful, courageous and passionate. Despite the way he sometimes treats our favorite heroine, Mac, as the enemy, he’s also the one person she can rely on to be there, and more often than not to save her in those times when she cannot save herself. This complicated guy is not only my favorite anti-hero ever, but one of my favorite characters of all time.

2. Terrible from Stacia Kane’s Downside Ghosts series. This is a difficult one because a huge part of me cries out that Terrible really is a hero! Perhaps he’s more hero than anti-hero, but the fact is that Terrible is an enforcer for a drug dealer and a pimp. Not the stuff that heroes are made of. What makes Terrible so utterly intriguing, however, is his loyalty, his fierce protectiveness, his compassion and his moments of true kindness. In another world, in different circumstances, Terrible would be a hero. But in the world and life he’s been given, Terrible is loyal to a criminal who has shown loyalty to him, and does a job that he might not like all the time, but one that he’s good at it. Definitely one of my favorite anti-heroes!

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Alexa Holland’s father was her hero—until her shocking discovery that she and her mother weren't his only family. Ever since, Alexa has worked to turn her life in a different direction and forge her own identity outside of his terrible secrets. But when she meets a man who’s as damaged by her father’s mistakes as she is, Alexa must help him.

Caine Carraway wants nothing to do with Alexa’s efforts at redemption, but it’s not so easy to push her away. Determined to make her hate him, he brings her to the edge of her patience and waits for her to walk away. But his actions only draw them together and, despite the odds, they begin an intense and explosive affair.

Only Caine knows he can never be the white knight that Alexa has always longed for. And when they're on the precipice of danger, he finds he’ll do anything to protect either one of them from being hurt again…

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