Top 5 Wednesday was created by Lainey at Ginger Reads Lainey but is hosted by Sam at Thoughts on Tomes. You can read more about this meme on the Goodreads Group here.
This weeks topic is:
Characters You WOULDN’T Want to Trade Places With
–We always talk about how cool it would be to be a character in our favorite books, but who would you not want to trade places with?
This was another easy topic for me to cover because there are a lot of characters that either piss me off or that I feel super bad for. Here are my choices for this week’s Top 5 Wednesday.
1. Edie from Who’s That Girl? by Mhairi McFarlane.
When Edie is caught in a compromising position at her colleagues’ wedding, all the blame falls on her – turns out that personal popularity in the office is not that different from your schooldays. Shamed online and ostracised by everyone she knows, Edie’s forced to take an extended sabbatical – ghostwriting an autobiography for hot new acting talent, Elliot Owen. Easy, right?
Read this part of the synopsis and it will tell you why I don’t want to trade places with her. She went to her crush’s wedding and he kissed her and they got caught. If that happened to me, I’d want to be like one of those Southwest Airline commercials…you know, the “Wanna get away?” commercials. How embarrassing to be known as the home and wedding wrecker, especially when it wasn’t even your fault!
2. Lily from A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean.
Miss Lillian Hargrove has lived much of her life alone in a gilded cage, longing for love and companionship. When an artist offers her pretty promises and begs her to pose for a scandalous portrait, Lily doesn’t hesitate…until the lying libertine leaves her in disgrace. With the painting now public, Lily has no choice but to turn to the one man who might save her from ruin.
Lily’s naked body is going to be shown to everyone in England and she is not about that life. Neither am I. I wouldn’t want to trade places with her for obvious reasons. Poor thing.
3. Rachel from The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.
Ugh, freaking Rachel. She couldn’t get her shit together, she put her nose where it didn’t belong and for what? A whole lot of trouble. She got on my hot damn nerves throughout the entire book. She just kept right on finding my nerves and stomping on them. I wouldn’t have wanted to trade places with her either.
4. Sofia from Overruled by Emma Chase.
But when Stanton, her “friend with mind-blowing benefits” begs for help, she finds herself out of her element, out of her depth, and obviously out of her mind. Because she agrees to go with him – to The-Middle-Of-Nowhere, Mississippi – to do all she can to help Stanton win back the woman he loves.
Her head tells her she’s crazy…and her heart says something else entirely.
Sofia falls in love with her friend with benefits and things are going swimmingly until her friend with benefits gets a wedding invitation for his main squeeze’s wedding back home and freaks out because the main squeeze wasn’t supposed to get married to anyone…but Sofia’s friend with benefits. So he flies home to try to persuade the main squeeze to NOT marry this other guy and he brings Sofia along for support. I just can’t even with that dumb ass. I felt bad for Sofia at first but the longer she stayed, the more pissed off I got at both the friend with benefits and HER. That whole book was a hot mess and I wouldn’t trade places with Sofia to save my life. Nope. Never.
5. Any heroine in an SEP book.
From Molly in This Heart of Mine and that scene to Rachel in Dream a Little Dream and all of the crap she went through in that book to Meg in Call Me Irresistible and just every single SEP book ever written, each heroine is humiliated and dragged through the mud and we’re a witness to it all. It’s really hard to read those books even though the heroines are strong and their stories end with a huge happy ending but still, I wouldn’t want to be an SEP heroine. I couldn’t deal with all of that madness.
There’s my top 5 for this week. What characters would you not want to trade places with?
Oh lordy I could not imagine the whole of London seeing me naked! haha..Great list!
Right? I couldn’t either and I don’t want to imagine it or trade places with her. Yikes!
Yeah, I can see why you wouldn’t want to trade places with some of these. I wouldn’t either! But you totally *should* trade places with the ones who aggravated you because then you could just do things right 😛
Hmm, maybe but I don’t know. She’s surrounded by a lot of crazy people and I wouldn’t want to deal with all of that madness so I think I’d still pass. Ha!
Yeah Rachel was a mess and I had a hard time liking her too. How sad it is when you PRETEND to go to work lol? I had a hard time with her… but then I didn’t like anybody in that book. 🙂
OMG, she drove me right up the wall and I wanted to punch her in the tits with every passing page. It was hard not to judge her for making dumb ass decision after dumb ass decision but ugh.
I didn’t like anyone either but…I still can’t wait to see the movie. LOL! I have issues, I know this.
I probably should have added Megan to my list of characters I don’t want to trade places with considering what happened to her, huh? LOL.
mmm, I can’t think of one off the top of my head but I know there are a couple.
You’re a reader like me, I know you have some characters you wouldn’t want to trade places with. Like the hooker that Derek Craven was trying to bang that reminded him of Sara…haha.
bwahahahaha!!!! Okay, I better check and make sure Overruled is NOT the book I own – I’d be tossing that one out the window of a fast moving vehicle for sure!!! And any of the heroines in a SEP’s book? Wow! No problem there!! I have a hard time with historicals as it is – too many stupid rules 😛
Awesome list, girl!!!!
Yes, run far away from Overruled. That book got on my nerves so much that I had to call my bestie and rant to her for a half hour straight about how stupid the hero was. Ugh. The heroine too.
SEP writes contemporary romances, a bunch of sports romances and those drove me crazy. The heroines are brought to their knees in the beginning (usually by the hero), humiliated in all kinds of ways to show how hard they’ve hit rock bottom before they’re brought back up and while the endings are always great, the beginnings hurt. Real bad. I just can’t…not anymore.