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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Hmm, not too promising. I don't really care for such characters. IMHO the best characters have good and bad traits. After all, we all have them.
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Did you ever read the Mark del Franco Connor Gray series (started with
Unshapely Things)? Or Alexandra Hughes' Mindspace Investigations series (started with
Clean)? Both have quite definitely fallen heroes.
Del Franco's series is finished, and it looks (sadly) like it didn't do well enough for the big Publishers. It looks like he's writing epic fantasy for kindle now.
Hughes' series is still open ended, but got stalled when she got pregnant and her writing muse went all otherwise. She recently posted in her newsletter that some experimenting on methods seems to be doing well for her (plus, baby is probably old enough to actually sleep through the bleeping night) and she's back in business. But she's be self-pubbing. This series I think is just different enough to not necessarily grab lots of readers. (Main character is a struggling drug addict - and if you knew my family history, you'd know how unlikely it was for me to want to read this, but she made it work!)
Edit to Add: Hughes has a few short stories (one might be long enough to call a novella) tied to her series. I read them - they were okay, but don't add to the series. If you're not a purist that *has* to read everything, you'd be fine skipping them.