LadyAlina
Eragon and Arya from the Inheritance Triology were the absolute pits. I didn't just want to hit them with a stick, I wanted to shoot them. Unfortunately, they're going to have a happy ending . . . sailing off into the sunset together . . . barf.
I hated Eragon because he was so . . . urg! He was arrogant, he thought only about himself, he treats his 'friends' like slaves (remember Murtagh?), he is rescued miraculously before he can destroy himself by his own stupidity . . . and add stalker and creep into the list as well.
Worst of all, he was the biggest Gary-Stu've read about in my entire life! He can learn how to fight, read, use magic in months when it would take a normal person years to master those. He gets a scar, but suddenly, is elfified into some 'beautiful' creature with the skills of an elf. Wow, just . . . wow.
And Arya's another kind as well. She could tell Eragon that she wasn't interested in him and end it at that, yet she keeps coming around . . . talking to him . . . hanging out with him . . . it's as if she loves tomenting him, then turning him down. Huge Mary-Sue. Beautiful, has tragic past, wise, powerful, beautiful singing voice . . . the works.
By right, she and Eragon shouldn't even be together in the first place, but she will fall in love with him because of the almightly plot dictation.
THANK YOU! Those characters RUINED what little chance I had at liking the books.They don't develop, they are at one emotional point then they magically end up at some other emotional point. His version of letting the character development is telling the reader what he thinks they need to know in the form of a few thoughts and words. He doesn't even attempt real writing.
Character-s 1) they are badly written 2) characters are so clichéd I'm surprised they can still move around under the immense weight of all the bad books before them 3) they are just stupid
[edit] I got so excited because I got to rant about my most hated book I forgot to say which character I wanted to smack w/ a two by four.
Anita Blake by Laurell K. Hamilton. I pretty much want to hit her in all her books. (I won't go into details about all the sex (porn) Hamilton started putting in the books.) Beyond that Anita doesn't really grow. She stays the same stubborn Anita who likes to b***h. The only way the reader finds out if she changes is if Hamilton makes an obvious statement about it. I.e: "A few months ago that would have made me pull the trigger". We go through the same emotional crap in each book... okay not the same. Hamilton adds a new sex (or four or five) partner for Anita to deal with every book. So thats new...
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