5. The Vampire
Okay, so this is a new/old one for me. I went through a vampire phase with everyone else about a decade ago when vamp books surged in popularity. Then I was burnt out for a good long time. Until recently. At the behest of my reader group, I started watching ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ because I missed this series when it first aired (I blame college and grad school.) Of course, I’m totally hooked now, and it made me peek into my to-be-read list to pull out a vampire series I hadn’t tried. I landed on Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress series, which had been sitting in my TBR for years. How misguided I was to let it languish! Halfway to the Grave and vampire hero Bones reignited my love for the vampire hero. Putting aside the whole having to drink blood thing, there’s something about a very confident guy with badass superpowers, especially in romance where superpowers are put to all kinds of fun uses. 😉 Plus, a bonus, Bones is hilarious, so he fits #4 too (and actually fits #3 too, in a way). So he hits all my trope-y buttons. Consider me firmly back in the pro-vampire camp.
So those are my five favorite trope-y heroes right now. I have others, but these are my standouts from 2018. What are your favorite hero types in romance?