Favourite Love Triangle - Mayne Attraction by Anne Mauren

It has been a while since I have done a post on a favourite love triangle and that is just because I have been a little but lazy about it. I have been meaning to put this up since I read the book,

So here we go.

This triangle is the relationship found in the book Mayne Attraction – In the Spotlight by Ann Mauren.

This is really interesting because both of the men involved as so different from each other and yet they have one solid thing in common – they both love Ellery and would do anything for her and in their own ways they are both honourable.

Another thing that makes this triangle brilliant is that there are no super natural elements. Everyone is normal. So our two guys can dislike each other purely for the personal reasons involved and not for any dumb deeply ingrained ‘you’re a werewolf, I’m a pixie/vampire/whatever’. Just pure male jealousy and you can’t go wrong with that.

Ash is so protective and yet unsure of the relationship that he tends to be a bit stiff about things but he loves and respects Ellery and shows this by not allowing their physical displays of affection go to far.

Grayson is the complete opposite of Ash, he is more laid back and sure of himself and more flippant about winding Ellery up. And yet he too has shown that he cares by having given her time to grow up.

So here we have another two men in a triangle who are as different as chalk and cheese and yet are lovely in their own ways.

And why do I love this triangle? Because I have no idea who I want Ellery to choose.

This book was a really fun read and I have read it again in between times.

Who can see the clue to what the next post will be? HINT HINT! :-)  

Favourite Love Triangle - Theatre Illuminata by Lisa Mantchev

I am not a great fan of love triangles. In fact I HATE them. Most of the time they bug me silly and I want to do nothing else but slap some sense into the girl (as most of the time it is a girl) in question, tell her to get her hormones sorted out and stop stringing along two guys and put them (or at least one of them) out of their misery already!

But! I will honestly say this is the first time I have EVER read a YA book and thought ‘Oh boy, even I don’t know who I would choose’

And so I was torn when the end of ‘Perchance to Dream’ arrived and we find out that Bertie (SPOILERS COMING) cares for both Ariel and Nate the exact same amount. And I mean EXACTLY the same. So now I am living in suspense because I am assuming that she will eventually have to choose one of them…or maybe neither…Crumbs! What would be worse? Leaving Nate crushed and broken? Leaving Ariel crushed and broken? Or leaving both of them (and no doubt Bertie) crushed, broken and alone?

Great, I am going to have nightmares tonight about the possibilities now.

Nate? Ariel? Nate…? Ariel…?  Agh. Nate? Ariel? Neither…? Both?

Oh, now there is a possibility that I dint think of. It won’t happen of course. But then again, she is married to both of them…

And then there is the fact that these men are as different as chalk and cheese and obviously hate each other’s fictional guts - Nate being the rough and tough sea faring sort and Ariel being a seductive air spirit with butterfly familiars. Really? Can anyone be more opposite Yeah I didn’t think so either. And the great thing  is that we have been given the whole of the first book to get to know them as characters – reasonably free from any kind of romantic entanglements – and then book 2 we get to see the romantic side building between Nate and Bertie, and Ariel and Bertie.

Sorry guys, waffling on a little bit there. So I shall leave you all in peace. 

Roll on BOOK 3!