It’s so hard to choose the perfect fictional guy, there are so many good ones, but I think I’d have to choose Clark Kent as played by Tom Welling on Smallville. Not just because he makes me weak in the knees either. He’s a perfect mix of guy next door and bad boy with a real sense of right and wrong. He stands for what he believes in, isn’t afraid of sacrifice, is loyal to those he loves, and protects the innocent. Justice isn’t just for those he likes. He’s a little tortured, but his pain makes him more aware of other’s pain and that makes him sympathetic. Overall he has a big heart, broad shoulders and just the tiniest hint of being a little bit of a nerd at heart. Wow. I’d be his Lois in a heartbeat.
Clark Kent in any form is great but I must confess that Dean Cain was my favorite Clark. Maybe that’s why I haven’t been able to truly appreciate Smallville because he just isn’t Dean 😉
I had a major crush on Dean Cain when that was on. I was delighted to see that my now-nearly-grown daughters can watch him as Superman, live streaming on Netflix!
Dean Cain was awesome, I still love his take on Superman. Lois and Clark and Smallville set such different tones for the story. I’m kind of a sucker for the emotional undercurrents more prominent in Smallville. I think they’ve made Clark Kent a much more realistic character. Doesn’t hurt that Tom Welling is the most beautiful man alive right now either. 🙂
Loved Dean Cain. I remember watching Superman with my then toddler daughter and she would point at the TV & say “man-man cute.” Hmmm. Wonder where that came from …
If you recall, Dean Cain and Yannick Bisson (my Jack) played brothers in a Lifetime movie, “I Do (But I Don’t).” Thought you’d like that tidbit of info . . . . 🙂
I would definitely choose Mr. Darcy from Pride & Prejudice. I fell in love with his character the first time I read it and then again when I saw Colin Firth play Mr. Darcy. I also like Edmund Bertram from Mansfield Park.
And I fell in love with Mr. Darcy from seeing David Rintoul in the role. I guess it all depends on who we saw originate it as to who the quintessential Mr. Darcy is. 😉
Oh my goodness!
What a hard question!
thinking……As of right now I’m going to say Alex from Mary Connealy’s book Doctor In Petticoats.
(Next book I read I’ll probably fall in love with on of the guys in it!:)
I really liked Heath McCord from Rachel Hauck’s book Love Starts With Elle, though too.
Oh there is just too many!!….
It’s so hard to choose, but I guess I would say the Tom in the Million Dollar Mystery series by Mindy Starns Clark. Each book builds on the previous book in that series, so you HAVE to read them in order. The characters and lessons in this series are so powerful that you just want more of them after the 5-book series ends. Can I choose two? My other one would have to be Shiloh Irons in the Cheney Duvall, M.D. series by Gilbert and Lynn Morris.
I thought they were really good too!
I never finished reading the series though. I’ll have to cause I really want to find out what happens to Shiloh, see if he really has a family somewhere.
I agree; the Million Dollar series is great, and Tom is a keeper! He’s such a mystery character at first, but then his heroic characteristics emerge as the books unfold. Anything by Gilbert Morris is worth reading; he’s a legend.
I’ll toss Dr. Neil MacNeill into the mix — *after* his conversion (in the Christy book by Catherine Marshall, also made popular on TV).
Well this is a tough call. If we are talking about fictional characters in TV shows, right now I’d probably go with Danno in Hawaii Five-O. If we’re talking about books…well that can change depending on whatever I happen to be reading at the time. Though some literary crushes of long-standing include Marcus from A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers, Sir Percy Blakeney from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, Mr. Darcy (of course!), and Rochester from Jane Eyre.
Being the visually oriented person that I am, it just cracks me up to picture you and Danno together. Hmmm . . . in Turnabout, Flannery is supposed to be a couple inches taller than Jamie. Now I’m thinking about making him even shorter! 😉
Don’t think I don’t realize how hilarious this is. LOL! But Danno is the first character on an American TV show that I’ve been this fascinated with in…well…gosh AGES. Personality is really trumping all other considerations at the moment. LOL!!!!!
Excellent choices, Ruth. Marcus from A Voice in the Wind was a marvelously developed character, probably my favorite from all the Francine Rivers novels, although you can’t go wrong with Hosea in Redeeming Love. As an early teen, I crushed on Jim from the Trixie Belden novels, but then I grew up & liked Mr. Rochester.
I just finished Audra Harder’s first novel, ROCKY MOUNTAIN HERO, and I still have a crush on her hero, “Gabe.” Sigh. He’s a cowboy who helps a damsel in distress. Who can resist that? But then, if I don’t have a crush on the hero by the end of the book, I’m not sure it was a good romance. Some I’ve had crushes on in the past are law enforcement agents, lawyers, chefs, personal assistants keeping a deep, dark, secret . . . 😉 And I love ’em all.
Don’t get me started on TV. Be quiet, Sherrinda. 😀
Annndddd, there’s my cue! Seely, be still my heart! I just love Bones and their kiss under the mistletoe…gulp…it takes my breath away. Didn’t you just love it????
Thats tough. I actually married a man that acted like Colin Firth’s “Mr. Darcy” but looked like Clark Kent. I would have to go with my first fictional “love” – Gilbert Blythe played by Jonathan Crombie 🙂
Maybe it’s because I was already in college before I was ever introduced to the Anne of Green Gables movies (and I never got past reading the first book after seeing the first two miniseries), but Gilbert always seemed quite young to me. Even though I know the third miniseries was really out in left field as far as story was concerned, that was the first time when Gilbert really started growing on me.
That really is a tough choice. oh goodness, I can’t pick just one. Either Mr. Darcy or Colonel Brandon. From Kaye Dacus’s books, George from Stand-In Groom!
See, this is why I’m having a really hard time formulating an answer to my own question . . . because I’d have a hard time picking between the guys in my own books, some TV/movie characters, and some other authors’ creations.
Fitzwilliam Darcy from Pride and Prejudice is my first choice. Forgive me, but I also like Jane Eyre’s Mr. Rochester. At first he seems repulsive, but as Jane falls in love with him, you find yourself in love with him too.
The first time Mr. Rochester even registered with me as a romantic hero was seeing the 2006 version with Toby Stephens playing him. He did such a good job in the role of making him both dark and vulnerable at the same time.
Did you ever see the 1983 version with Timothy Dalton and Zelah Clarke as Rochester and Jane? That one shows it’s age, but the script is straight from the pages of the book and the actors do a very good job.
Well, I haven’t seen the movies, so I can’t really disagree that Edward is better in the books…. I’ll just observe that if that is the case, he must be really. awful. in the movies.
I think movie Edward is still good, but you get so much more from a book. His character is nearly a perfect match for what I’d want… minus the being a member of the living dead of course. 🙂
Definitely have to say any one of the three brothers featured in my current work.
For one not created by me: Lobsang Ludd (though we’d have to work on the name) from Terry Pratchett’s Thief of Time. Why date just anyone when you can have Time himself. The perfect moment just stretched to infinity.
I am so in love with Mr. Thornton (North & South). Of course, it could be that it is just Richard Armitage that I love, as I really like him as Sir Guy in BBC’s Robin Hood. He is a bad guy, but is such a tortured and somewhat vulnerable character…at least so far. I haven’t gotten very far in the first season.
I just read Save The Date by Jennie B. Jones and Alex is a real heart stopper. My goodness, the man is a mixture of power, gentleness, and plain ol’ hunkiness. Great romance.
And I have to say that out of Kaye’s books that I have read, Forbes is my favorite leading man. Sigh, he is a man of power and has such a sense of honor. I just loved him!
Oh, but Rebekah, when Mr. Thorton declares his love…sigh…you can see his vulnerability! Soooo heartbreaking. Annnnd, the best scene is when she is moving away and the coach is driving off and Mr. Thornton is standing at the top of the steps saying, “Look back….Look back at me.” Sigh. I’m all done in.
I’m married, and happily. Is it all right for me to be here? 🙂
I’ll admit to having the occasional fiction crush. That Michael Hosea from Redeeming Love, I really don’t think he can be beat.
As for ABA fiction… I’m going with Roger MacKenzie, from Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. A black-haired, green-eyed historian, a singer who can wow a crowd at Celtic Festivals, a Scottish lad who comes off a plane looking like a pirate with a guitar, who (after a bit of time travel lag, a brush with a real pirate, and a stint as a captive of the Iroquois) manages to stand up to his fierce 18th century warrior father-in-law, learns to fight with a sword, protect his family on the frontier, overcomes the loss of his beautiful voice, and THEN answers a call from God to become a minister? Whoa.
So many to choose from. Agree about Mr. Darcy, I think I’m one of the few who likes both Colin Firth and Matthew Macfayden’s versions. Then again, I’ve had a crush on Macfayden since MI-5.
I’d also have to choose John Murphy from Bodie Thoene’s Zion Covenant series, and Brett Holden from Linda Chaikin’s Arabian series.
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It’s so hard to choose the perfect fictional guy, there are so many good ones, but I think I’d have to choose Clark Kent as played by Tom Welling on Smallville. Not just because he makes me weak in the knees either. He’s a perfect mix of guy next door and bad boy with a real sense of right and wrong. He stands for what he believes in, isn’t afraid of sacrifice, is loyal to those he loves, and protects the innocent. Justice isn’t just for those he likes. He’s a little tortured, but his pain makes him more aware of other’s pain and that makes him sympathetic. Overall he has a big heart, broad shoulders and just the tiniest hint of being a little bit of a nerd at heart. Wow. I’d be his Lois in a heartbeat.
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Wow–what a great choice, April!
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Clark Kent in any form is great but I must confess that Dean Cain was my favorite Clark. Maybe that’s why I haven’t been able to truly appreciate Smallville because he just isn’t Dean 😉
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I had a major crush on Dean Cain when that was on. I was delighted to see that my now-nearly-grown daughters can watch him as Superman, live streaming on Netflix!
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I own the set on DVD and I’ve watched the series at least twice through with those. Great series. It’s too bad it ended right after the baby came.
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Dean Cain was awesome, I still love his take on Superman. Lois and Clark and Smallville set such different tones for the story. I’m kind of a sucker for the emotional undercurrents more prominent in Smallville. I think they’ve made Clark Kent a much more realistic character. Doesn’t hurt that Tom Welling is the most beautiful man alive right now either. 🙂
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Loved Dean Cain. I remember watching Superman with my then toddler daughter and she would point at the TV & say “man-man cute.” Hmmm. Wonder where that came from …
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I agree–I loved Dean Cain as the man of steel. Lois and Clark is one of my all time favorite tv series!
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Wasn’t Dean Cain on Beverly Hills 90201 back in the day?
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Am I the only one who thinks Dean Cain and Eddie Cibrian should play brothers in something?
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They so could, I’d like to see that happen. 🙂
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I cast Eddie Cibrian as the hero in the third book of the new contemporary proposal I’m working on. Maybe he needs to have a brother . . .
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I never thought of that! I’ve cast Eddie Cibrian in my first novel. Dean Cain would be great as my character’s brother. Thanks for the idea. 🙂
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If you recall, Dean Cain and Yannick Bisson (my Jack) played brothers in a Lifetime movie, “I Do (But I Don’t).” Thought you’d like that tidbit of info . . . . 🙂
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🙂
The one I’m writing about now…and he’s a bad guy. imagine?
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One of those villains we love to hate? A bad guy with a heart of gold?
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I would definitely choose Mr. Darcy from Pride & Prejudice. I fell in love with his character the first time I read it and then again when I saw Colin Firth play Mr. Darcy. I also like Edmund Bertram from Mansfield Park.
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And I fell in love with Mr. Darcy from seeing David Rintoul in the role. I guess it all depends on who we saw originate it as to who the quintessential Mr. Darcy is. 😉
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Oh my goodness!
What a hard question!
thinking……As of right now I’m going to say Alex from Mary Connealy’s book Doctor In Petticoats.
(Next book I read I’ll probably fall in love with on of the guys in it!:)
I really liked Heath McCord from Rachel Hauck’s book Love Starts With Elle, though too.
Oh there is just too many!!….
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Oh, I loved Alex too. He’s different then the usual hero, but it’s a good kind of different.
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Mary and Rachel both write such strong heroes, it would be hard to choose!
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Oh wow, have to pass on this one!! Will read others’ comments! lol
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It’s a hard question—I’m still trying to come up with my answer, and I came up with this question more than a month ago!
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It’s so hard to choose, but I guess I would say the Tom in the Million Dollar Mystery series by Mindy Starns Clark. Each book builds on the previous book in that series, so you HAVE to read them in order. The characters and lessons in this series are so powerful that you just want more of them after the 5-book series ends. Can I choose two? My other one would have to be Shiloh Irons in the Cheney Duvall, M.D. series by Gilbert and Lynn Morris.
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Oh my goodness I LOVED the Cheney Duvall books! I really need to re-read those! Nice to meet another fan! 🙂
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I thought they were really good too!
I never finished reading the series though. I’ll have to cause I really want to find out what happens to Shiloh, see if he really has a family somewhere.
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Haven’t read either of those series, but you’ve piqued my curiosity.
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I agree; the Million Dollar series is great, and Tom is a keeper! He’s such a mystery character at first, but then his heroic characteristics emerge as the books unfold. Anything by Gilbert Morris is worth reading; he’s a legend.
I’ll toss Dr. Neil MacNeill into the mix — *after* his conversion (in the Christy book by Catherine Marshall, also made popular on TV).
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The Million Dollar Mystery series is being reprinted with new covers this year.
http://www.harvesthousepubl.com/books_fictionbook.cfm?productID=6929561
Speaking of covers…..have you all seen the cover for Tamera Alexander’s new book? It’s quite beautiful.
http://tameraalexander.blogspot.com/2011/01/peek-at-a-lasting-impression.html
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Well this is a tough call. If we are talking about fictional characters in TV shows, right now I’d probably go with Danno in Hawaii Five-O. If we’re talking about books…well that can change depending on whatever I happen to be reading at the time. Though some literary crushes of long-standing include Marcus from A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers, Sir Percy Blakeney from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, Mr. Darcy (of course!), and Rochester from Jane Eyre.
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Being the visually oriented person that I am, it just cracks me up to picture you and Danno together. Hmmm . . . in Turnabout, Flannery is supposed to be a couple inches taller than Jamie. Now I’m thinking about making him even shorter! 😉
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Don’t think I don’t realize how hilarious this is. LOL! But Danno is the first character on an American TV show that I’ve been this fascinated with in…well…gosh AGES. Personality is really trumping all other considerations at the moment. LOL!!!!!
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Excellent choices, Ruth. Marcus from A Voice in the Wind was a marvelously developed character, probably my favorite from all the Francine Rivers novels, although you can’t go wrong with Hosea in Redeeming Love. As an early teen, I crushed on Jim from the Trixie Belden novels, but then I grew up & liked Mr. Rochester.
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I just finished Audra Harder’s first novel, ROCKY MOUNTAIN HERO, and I still have a crush on her hero, “Gabe.” Sigh. He’s a cowboy who helps a damsel in distress. Who can resist that? But then, if I don’t have a crush on the hero by the end of the book, I’m not sure it was a good romance. Some I’ve had crushes on in the past are law enforcement agents, lawyers, chefs, personal assistants keeping a deep, dark, secret . . . 😉 And I love ’em all.
Don’t get me started on TV. Be quiet, Sherrinda. 😀
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Jack . . . Seeley . . .
😉
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I just had a thought. What if Jack and Seeley ended up in the same FBI unit? I would probably just die.
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Ahem . . . and when are you going to start writing that story?
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Oh, yeah. Seely is a very good choice. Very good.
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Annndddd, there’s my cue! Seely, be still my heart! I just love Bones and their kiss under the mistletoe…gulp…it takes my breath away. Didn’t you just love it????
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YES!!! This season is killing me. I just want the two of them to finally get on the same page at the same time.
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Thats tough. I actually married a man that acted like Colin Firth’s “Mr. Darcy” but looked like Clark Kent. I would have to go with my first fictional “love” – Gilbert Blythe played by Jonathan Crombie 🙂
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You are a VERY blessed woman!!!
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thanks! I think so too! You can see a picture here:
http://www.realpeachymom.com/2010/05/my-first-love.html
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Very handsome man. Good post on your blog too.
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Loooove Gilbert Blythe! My first love!!!
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Maybe it’s because I was already in college before I was ever introduced to the Anne of Green Gables movies (and I never got past reading the first book after seeing the first two miniseries), but Gilbert always seemed quite young to me. Even though I know the third miniseries was really out in left field as far as story was concerned, that was the first time when Gilbert really started growing on me.
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Jack Ryan Sr
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Which incarnation? Alec Baldwin? Harrison Ford? Ben Affleck? Or are you picturing him totally differently from reading the books?
(I’m a huge fan of the Liev Schreiber interpretation of John Clark, myself.)
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Harrison Ford.
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Mr. Darcy, most definitely. If he wasn’t available, I’d take Mr. Knightly.
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Both excellent choices.
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That really is a tough choice. oh goodness, I can’t pick just one. Either Mr. Darcy or Colonel Brandon. From Kaye Dacus’s books, George from Stand-In Groom!
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most definitely!!! I think my favorite Kaye Dacus character would be Bobby from “Love Remains”!
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See, this is why I’m having a really hard time formulating an answer to my own question . . . because I’d have a hard time picking between the guys in my own books, some TV/movie characters, and some other authors’ creations.
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I agree about George. He is lovely!
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I like George too 😀
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Fitzwilliam Darcy from Pride and Prejudice is my first choice. Forgive me, but I also like Jane Eyre’s Mr. Rochester. At first he seems repulsive, but as Jane falls in love with him, you find yourself in love with him too.
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The first time Mr. Rochester even registered with me as a romantic hero was seeing the 2006 version with Toby Stephens playing him. He did such a good job in the role of making him both dark and vulnerable at the same time.
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Did you ever see the 1983 version with Timothy Dalton and Zelah Clarke as Rochester and Jane? That one shows it’s age, but the script is straight from the pages of the book and the actors do a very good job.
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From TV, how about William T. Riker from Star Trek Next Gen or Father Jack Landry from V?
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I’m a Worf girl myself. 😉
And I love Jack Landry . . . and the character Joel Gretsch played on The 4400, Tom Baldwin.
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Hmmm. I’ll have to check out The 4400. Never even heard of it.
As for Worf, not bad, especially in the later years of STNG, but not so much in Deep Space Nine. Didn’t like that he fell for Dax.
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Worf was our all time favorite Star Trek character. We once held out hope they’d do a Klingon based show where Worf was the MC. I’d so watch that.
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Love Father Jack Landry. Good choice. I liked Joel Gretsch as Tom Baldwin in The 4400.
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LOL–looks like we were posting the exact same thought at the exact same time!
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Great minds think alike… right?
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I have to add in Edward from the Twilight Series books and Max from Roswell.
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Edward must be so much better in the books.
Never seen Roswell, but since it’s on DVD (and maybe streaming, haven’t checked) on Netflix, that’s one I’ll have to go back and watch.
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I agree about Edward being better in the books.
The movies were the best thing to ever happen to Team Jacob.
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Edward is much better in the books. Jacob is too, but he just can’t top Edward. 🙂 Roswell is streaming on Netflix, very worth the watch.
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Well, I haven’t seen the movies, so I can’t really disagree that Edward is better in the books…. I’ll just observe that if that is the case, he must be really. awful. in the movies.
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That sums up my thoughts on Edward.
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I think movie Edward is still good, but you get so much more from a book. His character is nearly a perfect match for what I’d want… minus the being a member of the living dead of course. 🙂
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Definitely have to say any one of the three brothers featured in my current work.
For one not created by me: Lobsang Ludd (though we’d have to work on the name) from Terry Pratchett’s Thief of Time. Why date just anyone when you can have Time himself. The perfect moment just stretched to infinity.
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The name does need some work, but the character sounds fantastic!
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Oh! And Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap, there’s another one to fall in love with.
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I am so in love with Mr. Thornton (North & South). Of course, it could be that it is just Richard Armitage that I love, as I really like him as Sir Guy in BBC’s Robin Hood. He is a bad guy, but is such a tortured and somewhat vulnerable character…at least so far. I haven’t gotten very far in the first season.
I just read Save The Date by Jennie B. Jones and Alex is a real heart stopper. My goodness, the man is a mixture of power, gentleness, and plain ol’ hunkiness. Great romance.
And I have to say that out of Kaye’s books that I have read, Forbes is my favorite leading man. Sigh, he is a man of power and has such a sense of honor. I just loved him!
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For me it would be a toss-up between Bobby and Forbes. Somehow I think I’m spending way too much time with this today . . . . LOL
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I agree, Sherrinda, Forbes is the man for me out of Kaye’s characters! 🙂
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Oh yeah, Mr. Thornton. He seems so cold, yet he has a good heart.
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Oh, but Rebekah, when Mr. Thorton declares his love…sigh…you can see his vulnerability! Soooo heartbreaking. Annnnd, the best scene is when she is moving away and the coach is driving off and Mr. Thornton is standing at the top of the steps saying, “Look back….Look back at me.” Sigh. I’m all done in.
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I wasn’t saying he’s completely cold. He does indeed have his moments where is genuine and sincere.
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I’m married, and happily. Is it all right for me to be here? 🙂
I’ll admit to having the occasional fiction crush. That Michael Hosea from Redeeming Love, I really don’t think he can be beat.
As for ABA fiction… I’m going with Roger MacKenzie, from Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. A black-haired, green-eyed historian, a singer who can wow a crowd at Celtic Festivals, a Scottish lad who comes off a plane looking like a pirate with a guitar, who (after a bit of time travel lag, a brush with a real pirate, and a stint as a captive of the Iroquois) manages to stand up to his fierce 18th century warrior father-in-law, learns to fight with a sword, protect his family on the frontier, overcomes the loss of his beautiful voice, and THEN answers a call from God to become a minister? Whoa.
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Which in turn reminds me of Laura Frantz’ hero in “The Frontiersman’s Daughter.” Oh my.
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Everytime I open Stand-in Groom I melt when I read about George. Oh! Leopold from Kate and Leopold (aka Hugh Jackman)
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Hands down, Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice but most definitely in Bridget Jones’s Diary. When he goes to buy her a new diary…..oh GAAAAWD!
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Declan from Leap Year (aka Matthew Goode)
” Mrs. O’Brady Callahan, where the hell are you goin’?”
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Oh goodness I LOVED Matthew Goode in that movie!
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So many to choose from. Agree about Mr. Darcy, I think I’m one of the few who likes both Colin Firth and Matthew Macfayden’s versions. Then again, I’ve had a crush on Macfayden since MI-5.
I’d also have to choose John Murphy from Bodie Thoene’s Zion Covenant series, and Brett Holden from Linda Chaikin’s Arabian series.
Now I find myself wanting to re-read those books.
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Funny you should mention John Murphy…I just started re-reading Vienna Prelude today for the millionth time. 🙂 LOVE HIM!!
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I almost started re-reading Vienna Prelude a couple of weeks ago. I’m so looking forward to the new book that comes out in March.
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It’s Sully (Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman) in a heartbeat!
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