Favorite Couple

This is for a contest run by Not Enough Bookshelves.  She is giving away 3 books (winner gets to choose) from her top ten favorite couples of the year.

I am limiting my choices to books that I read for the first time in 2010.  Otherwise, I would be debating forever between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, Cal and Min from Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie, Katnis and Peeta, Eve and Roarke from the in Death series or many other couples.

So my favorite couple for this year is Eugenides (Gen) and Attolia from the Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner.

I read the whole series this year because The King of Attolia was considered a Top Ten Best Book for YA's a few years ago.    I enjoyed how the relationship developed overtime and was somewhat fully explained in my favorite in the series, The King of Attolia.

Eugenides and Attolia really shouldn't ever be a couple.  They are so different, but those differences are what makes them work.  If anything Eugenides should hate Attolia for what she did and yet he still loves her.  It is also because of the horrible incident that Attolia actually falls in love with Gen.  The parts where it is revealed how deeply these 2 feel for each or small nuggets of greatness.  The romance between these two characters reminds me of The Scarlett Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy and the love between Sir Percy and Marguerite.


So read The Queen's Thief series and for that matter The Scarlett Pimpernel.   

Love of In Death series by J.D. Robb

I really enjoy this series.  I started the series in 2008, and have read all the books, including novellas found in various anthologies.  

The series takes place in the future, 2059 and everything is high tech.  The main character is Eve Dallas, a lieutenant for the NYPD Homicide division, who eventually falls in love and marries Roarke, an extremely wealthy businessman.  Each book (all 38 books) has its own mystery, but for a good half of the series there was an overall plot of figuring out who exactly is Eve Dallas.  Now the series has been focusing more on Roarke's background and his family connections.  I cannot sit down and tell you what happened in each book but I can tell you all about the overall plot.

I love the series for the characters, and not just Eve and Roarke (I would love to find a man like Roarke).  But mainly the development of the secondary characters that tend to pop up now and then during a book.  Sometimes a book will have a case that focuses on a secondary character.  I also like to see how Eve interacts with characters, because before she meet Roarke, she was extremely anti-social, really had no friends and lived and breathed her job.

I know this series will eventually end, at least featuring Eve and Roarke.  It'll be sad when it happens but until then I will be one of the first people requesting it from the library or waiting patiently for the newest book to come out in paperback.