Urban Paranormal of the Femslashy Kind

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Ivy Alisha Tamwood, six feet of powerful, dangerous and beautiful living vampire perennially struggling with her instincts, and inexplicably (by this point) in love with one Rachel Mariana Morgan since Dead Witch Walking. Nine books later (and let me say that I was warned off the 8th and 9th so I haven’t read them), they’ve had a couple of

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I've come to call it the UF golden rule; if you're male and pretty in an urban fantasy setting, it doesn't matter that you're a monster, your every crimes are forgivable and only add to the complexity and sex appeal of your character.

I think you just named the rule for about 80% of the "romantic" formulas out there. :P Take, for instance, the vampire. No one ever had trouble believing bald, ugly, bug-eyed Nosferatu was evil or that he should die at the end. Ditto Bram Stoker's Dracula (the book, not the movie), with his creepy-crawly air and hairy palms, or even the pale, unwashed vampires of 30 Days of Night. But once you get to Anne Rice's Lestat and down the line to the glittery kind, that's all out the window.

You're totally right about Mia and Trent. But alright, maybe it can be argued that there's a kind of glamorized/romanticized mob boss tradition in fiction and movies that applies to Trent. But AL?! I don't care how charming he gets, he seduced and enslaved souls like Ceri for thousands of years. Does anyone get that he's practically a slave-trader? And it's not like he's horrified at what he's done. So I don't get why he deserves a makeover.

Thanks for the rec! I'll give the Dresden Files a try one of these days.