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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
In my world, Lancelot is an asshole who seduces a married woman, and Arthur is pathetic for not putting a stop to it. And frankly, Guinevere is by far the biggest moron of the three, and the two men would both be better of without her.  |
I agree.
I despise love triangles. And I will never understand why some romance authors use them so much. The whole TeamX and TeamY thing frustrates me. Why set up half your audience to be disappointed? Or why try to fool your audience by truly developing a relationship between two secondary charatcers in a series only to pair them up with other people when they finally get their own book(s)?
Which isn't to say having multiple suitors/possibilities in the beginning of book/series is always a bad thing. I don't consider Darcy/Elizabeth/Wickham to be a love trinagle as an example. And in series like Cindy Gerard's Black Ops Inc or Roxanne St Claire's Bullet Catchers where the possible romance between two characters is hinted at, but then the characters end up with others isn't the same as a bait-and-switch.
But once someone is in a relationship I want to read about that. Not about the hero or heroine vacillating between who to pick.