Top Ten Tuesday: Love Hate Relationship

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. 

This week's theme asked us to come up with characters that everyone else loves that we just hate, or vice versa. 

This list was impossibly hard for me to put together! I swear, I spent more time thinking of who I could pick than I did making the silly little avatars for everyone, and if you knew how long that took I'd just have to die of embarrassment :p 

I happened to have Vampire Academy on my mind whenever I read this week's topic, and so this one was the only easy one from this list. Adrian lands solidly in the "I really don't get why everyone loves you" category. Not that there is anything wrong with him, necessarily. In fact, it's really hard to pinpoint exactly what I dislike about him. But everyone kept telling me when I started the books (really late to the party!) that I would fall in love with him, and he was just wholly underwhelming. 

As for Sydney, everyone also told me how much I would hate her and that she was such an awful character. I think because they kept saying that, it made me expect something much worse than what we got. Sydney is far from my favorite character, but I ended up liking her a lot more than I thought I would! It's funny, a lot of my book club friends won't read the Bloodlines series because of Sydney, even though they love Adrian. I won't read Bloodlines cause I just don't care about Adrian, even though I like Sydney!

Even thinking about these characters or this book, my brain just thinks "blah, blah blah." These characters were so boring, and I just couldn't understand what all the hubbub was about them. Ethan was annoying and Lena was the different girl cliche. There was nothing about them that made me want to read more about them at all after the first book. 

I didn't really hate Sam, but I definitely never felt the warm and fuzzies for him, and I definitely didn't see how Anna could choose him over Nick. Nick was so much more interesting and far less bland hero than Sam was. Team Nick all the way! 

OMG! Christian Fucking Prescott from Unearthly by Cynthia Hand..... I totally hate him with all my soul! He was so annoying, he was a stalker and he was the reason why my poor Tucker was so unhappy. I seriously could not stand this dude.

Puck from The Iron Fey series. People did not hate him, but he wasn't the majority's favorite, and I super loved him! I was really pissed when Julie Kagawa wrote in the fourth book a dedication only for Ash's fans.

This will be pretty disturbing for those who read the Lorien Legacies series but Setrakus Ra is pretty sexy villain.

As evil as he was, I still found him pretty hot!