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I always thought of Frost as Asher. Even though Rhys is the scarred fellow of the series he's way more bubbly than Asher has ever been. Frost and Asher both seem manic depressive to me at various times.

I don't know who the Richard character is. Probably Galen. All nice and cool to be with at first but just not able to cut it in the world of monter politics.

While I agree there are some similarities, I think there are also signifigant differences.

Frost tends to be jelous (I think) out of a fear that he will lose Merdith's love, on the faulty logic that she has a finite amount of love, so if she loves someone else more, she must love him less. Richard is, in my opinion, jelous more out of a sense of poseviness and a idea that a woman should only be sleeping with one person at a time. Anita should be his, and it's not right for her to be sleeping with someone else if she's sleeping with him. His moral and sense of the world are the source, not his heart.

Their moodiness also has a different flavor to it, as well. This is harder to quantify, for me at least, but Richard isn't just moody, he's clinicaly depressed, (symptoms of some kinds of depression can include fits of rage) and in serious need of professional help. Frost is moody, but not in a petulent sort of way, as if having started to allow himself to feel and show feelings he's not quite sure where the line of when to and when not to is.

(On a side note, while I like Frost, he's not my favorite charachter. I actually like Richard, I just don't think he actually loves Anita, and I don't think he's good for her.)

Can't say I've read the Gentry series. I can tell you, however, that if you read the news on LKH that her books mirror her life insofar as men moving in and out of it. And honestly, if she's having as much success with gentry as she is with anita, why should she change her basic plot kit?

I love them both.

This is a really wild topic !!! First I do not believe in respnse to an earlier comment that galen is like richard. galen is like a child who has needed to grow up and mature and has been doing so through the series. his outbursts have been fewer. i can see merry ending up with him maybe when all is said and done because he may become a very strong person since they are all getting their god powers back and his have not really been fully revealed until just briefly inthe end of the latest book.
Frost in definately nothing like richard !!!! frost does not dislike himself and is actually accepting of merry sleeping with the other men to get pregnant now whereas richard's problem is his self loathing of himself and his beast and he started having issues with anita and JC I believe not just when they started having sex but when they were sharing blood and richard doesn't like the fact that he has male and female tendencies. he is a very confused and angry amn and frost may pout but he is never this angry or hurtful to merry. frost and doyle nicca are all my favs and i'm always looking forward to the next gentry book with massive excitement just like I do for the next anita blake book.

Frost=Cute and overly emotional
Richard=ASDFJKL*words not allowed on Gaia* Jerk!

Meh, Sure they're both pouty and get thier feelings hurt easily...but I think Richard is more so...He's quick to anger and shows it puls he's self lothing and and self distuctive...Which is a shame cause I really liked him in the begining...
Frost is pouty but he tries hard not to show emotion and does't get violent... Frost doesn't really hate himeself or what he is...well not nearly as much as Richard hates himself... sure Frost has self essem issues from not being Shide form the start, but Mary fixes that when she show she doesn't care what he was before....