***The Starry-Eyed Revue***: twilight

TGIF is hosted by Ginger at GReads! In this weekly feature, Ginger poses a question to her followers and then asks everyone to link up at the end of the post, sharing their responses.

This Friday's Question:

Love-Hate Relationship: Which characters from a book do you love to hate?

So, I debated which way to run with this. I could go with the baddies I despise but am supposed to hate, or I could mention the protagonists that I'm supposed to like but end up hating. Since the latter is way more fun, let's talk about those. :)

First, we have Bella Swan from The Twilight Saga. I know I'm not alone on this one. My biggest gripe with this character is how she just gives up when the "love of her life" walks out on her. She literally curls up in a ball on the forest floor and lays there unconscious until a search party is sent out to find her because she's been missing for so long. Bella's whole life, even when he returns to her, is hinged on Edward. She even wants to become a vampire so she can be with him. I'm not Team-Anybody, at least when it comes to Twilight -- I am sooooooo #TeamTod of the Soul Screamers series -- but Jacob had a point when he told Bella, "You wouldn't have to change for me." I could continue with this rant, but I would rather move on to the other MC I love to hate.

Enter Nora Grey. Throughout the first Hush, Hush novel, she has this sense that Patch is bad news, yet she feels this undeniable pull toward him. Wake up, Nora...he's a STALKER! Yes, I love Patch, but as a reader, I know things that Nora can't possibly know. And yet she falls for him, anyway. But that's not really the reason I don't like her character. She's just frustratingly annoying. Every word that comes out of her mouth, every move she makes, every petty thought she has in her tiny little brain...those things annoy me to no end. Nora is exactly the opposite of what I'm looking for in a good heroine. Honestly, I would probably never refer to her as a heroine, though. She's the girl who constantly needs saving, who can't make a decision on her own to save her life. Nora's character was a little less maddening in Silence, but I'll never truly like her. However, I will keep reading for Patch, though I realize he is the fallen angel equivalent to Edward "the glittery vampire" Cullen. If there was a list of characters I hate to love, they'd probably both be on it.

What about you? Which characters do you feel good about despising?