What Was the Author THINKING?

Lynda X · Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 1250

Reading today's review of SPELLFIRE, a series I've never read, I was scratching my head in wonder of the author's choice in characters' names. Whoever would name a hero--and a paranormal one, at that--RABBIT and the heroine MYRINNE (which sounds like an eye wash to me).

Can you think of other choices, that you thought, "Why, oh why?" of an author?

LynnS/AAR · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 115

Sometimes character names put me off, too. I know they have a massive following, but I have to admit that I find the character names in Black Dagger Brotherhood very off-putting. I mean, Rhage? Vishous? Zsadist and Phury?

I also remember finding some of those Barbara Cartland heroine names hilarious, too. In her later books, I noticed that the heroine's name always had to end with the letter "a" and there were some crazy ones. Delisia, Ila and Zoleka are some of the stranger ones I recall. I always assumed that the author started running out of names after a while.

maggie b. · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 2252

Didn't Brockmann have a heroine named Dolphina? That to me was the worst. Just nonsensical.

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willaful · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 1468

Phury will always be Furry to me. Can just NOT take him seriously.

The worst I ever encoutered was this: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67511.Guilty_Pleasures . The hero is named (or nicknamed, presumably, at least one hopes!) Nasty. I couldn't get past the first page.
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Dreaming of You · Joined: 20 Jun 2012 Posts: 24