The Terrible Truth About Book Boyfriends: Listen, we all love a good romance book with a handsome, morally grey male character. They make our reading experience fun and introduce new, fresh ways to write romance lines. Many romance books are character-driven; naturally, you need an interesting cast to push your narrative further. That being said, book boyfriends are fun, but they are really bad for you. And they are much worse than actual guys, you know, in real life.
Let me tell you the topmost truth about book boyfriends, which they never let you find out.
They are immature.
Every instance, I hear the phrase “I will burn the whole world for you,” I cringe. The person we are reading about has no morals and is easily swayed to be a possible tyrant and a mass murderer. I am sorry, but if a mature person doesn’t think about people around him, doesn’t even have a thought about others, consumed by his personal love life, he is no one I would ever want to know.
They are shallow.
How many times have you read stories with an instant connection solely based on looks? She was so beautiful, blah, blah, blah . . . It does seem like many of them are only attracted to what is on the outside. This is not good. People in real life look for a connection first and slowly build relationships. Unless they are in for a quick fling. But I believe you are smart enough to avoid those.
They are posers.
Almost every time, after the male and female leads are getting together. The book boyfriend loses all his personality and shadows the female lead, completely losing his voice and his identity. You may disagree with me, but I can name you many books guilty of this. It seems like they only exist in the eyes of the female, as soon as she is not looking at them, admiring them they are disappearing in to thin air.
Insta love.
Don’t even get me started on all this mating and instant connection thing. It is really convenient to write, but reading about it is anticlimactic to say the least. Luckily, real life boyfriends are much better and will never attach themselves to other people in the first five seconds unless they are complete idiots. In this case, they need to be avoided at all costs.