Characters do NOT have to be likeable

she often writes very innocent people who just get struck with so much tragedy because they don't like or don't accept or don't understand how the world around them Works they're people who don't fit into society inconvenience store woman the way that's expressed is pretty grounded

in earthlings it very much isn't this is a book with a thousand trigger warnings there's so much stuff in here to upset people all of that is valid if you get upset by the events in this book I understand that

then you've got my favorite book together Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

this is a very good book full of very good characters they're just not good but they are good they're interesting this is a book full of depravity of crime and abuse and torture and gaslighting and murder blood and gore it's a medieval setting a lawless place and it's so much fun

the protagonists of the remains of the day never let me go the unconsoled all of these characters are flawed and broken and they have good reasons to be

Stevens is a great example of this is a very pathetic very naive man who has been entrapped and encased and sheltered by tradition and conservatism he's a he's so flawed and so broken but there is hope for him and you enjoy that hope and even if there isn't it's so interesting thing reading about how this guy was suckered into believing that tradition is the most important thing in the world that's fascinating to me

the protagonists of the remains of the day never let me go the unconsoled all of these characters are flawed and broken and they have good reasons to be

she is a wrecking ball of a human being she is abhorrent and she's interesting she does really weird and wacky and horrible things wonderfully awful sexual things she is depraved and fantastic and interesting she's interesting

Wuthering Heights is a collection of all being terrible to each other just a house full of monsters being monsters

here's a book I read really recently also by a woman yellowface by RF Quang this is one of my favorite books of 2023 and I'm amazing novel the protagonist is a villain