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Spotlight Sunday January 12, 2014

January 12, 2014 by Jaime Leave a Comment

Spotlight Sunday on Swoony Boys Podcast and Fiction Fare

When the four of us are together, in person or via the magic of the internet, the conversations almost always come back to books. We love them. We love the people who write them, the people who publish them, and the people who read them. In fact, we have so many feelings about books that we wanted to find a way to share our conversations with you!   Our new feature, hosted by Fiction Fare (Erin & Jaime) and Swoony Boys Podcast (Kassiah & Meg), is called Spotlight Sunday and it’s about ALL things bookish. Each week we’ll post a topic, we’ll start the conversation by telling you some of our thoughts, and then it will be your turn to sound off in the comment section.

Each week we will post our discussion on one of the blogs and open up the comments to hear back from you!  This week you can find our discussion on Swoony Boys Podcast! 
Spotlight Sunday on Swoony Boys Podcast and Fiction Fare


It’s time for the very first Spotlight Sunday! It was hard for us to figure out what we wanted to discuss first, but we finally settled on a topic. Are you ready? This week our question is:

Our Topic Today is Love Triangles – and we have many feelings about them!!

Jaime:I know we all have our hot buttons, and in fiction this seems to be a big one for many many people, but I hope this doesn’t upset anyone when I say it. I don’t hate love triangles. I have come to accept that they are a fact of fiction, but I have found that appreciate them much more when they are really well done.

Erin:I don’t mind them either but I almost always lean toward one character more than the other. Have you ever found yourself torn between the swoony boy characters and unable to choose which one you like more? 

Meg:Ever since Twilight, I think it’s safe to say that I hate love triangles. There are a few exceptions, very few, where I can see a reason for it happening. But for the most part I always feel so passionately about one of the two boys (or I suppose girls too) that I just feel very “I’m just not that into you” about the other boy.

Kassiah:It doesn’t surprise me that you don’t hate Love Triangles, Jaime & Erin. Of course, you know that I pretty much hate love triangles, unless that’s the point of the book, and even then I don’t like it. It drives me nuts when there are fourteen thousand other things going on in a book and then we have to worry about that on top of everything else. Especially when it seems like a forced cliché. I mean, why would we ever think that she would choose Jake? Ew. I’m reminded of the number one question that Veronica Roth got about Insurgent, so much so that she put out a general THERE WILL NOT BE A LOVE TRIANGLE statement. I mean, should we have ever even doubted that? No, we shouldn’t, but of course we did because that seems to be what everyone does, especially in a middle book. To answer your question, Erin, I definitely have found myself torn between two boys, though it’s pretty rare. I was #TeamChristian all along in the Unearthly series, but I loved Tucker, too. It was a tough choice. Usually I stick with one boy in the triangle 🙂

Jaime:What about those authors who give you fake triangles… I mean, they include a second love interest, but it’s apparent that that person isn’t really going to ‘get the girl’. They are just there to cause some sort of conflict… WAIT …OMG is this why people hate them? LOL This still doesn’t bother me to be honest.

Erin:Well, I don’t go out of my way to avoid them if they are in a book. I know there are some people that really hate it as a plot device, and I can understand. What bothers me more in a love triangle is when the main character is all “I don’t know who to choose” or something happens that all of a sudden every guy (or girl) wants the main character. Like, they’ve never had a boyfriend/girlfriend but now everyone wants to be with that character. 

Meg:This is a very good point. I think that’s what drives me the craziest. If someone else is in love with the main character that’s one thing, but when that main character is “wishy-washy” about what and who they want, it makes me feel like they are weak in character. Maybe it’s because I’ve never been in a situation like that personally…. but it drives me completely crazy. 

Kassiah:Totally agree. And this brings up another topic that we’ll be exploring later: novellas. I feel like authors are now using novellas to justify their choices for the characters’ love lives. Like, when an author introduces a character into a triangle, and it wasn’t her original intention for the MC to choose him, but then she (the author) falls in love with him, so she writes a novella to either get readers to jump on a different bandwagon (like #TeamWarner) or stop liking the original, totally swoony guy. Again, ew. 

Jaime:go #teamwarner *runs away*. 

Now that you’ve read some of our thoughts, let us know what you’re thinking in the comments below! We’ll be back next week with a brand new topic and lots more to talk about.

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