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So far, Jamie Fraser from Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Series is winning hands down as an all-time favorite hero.
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Professor- Roger MacKenzie from the OUTLANDER series *le sigh*The physical description is completely up my alley, from the height to the black hair and green eyes; he’s a musician and a scholar and can be tough as nails when necessary. And since I have a serious soft spot for the beta guys, he’s the absolute epitome of what a beta man can and really should be– he’s not the leader, he doesn’t have to be the leader, but he can step up and be the leader when necessary. Not a wimp, not by any stretch of the imagination (my biggest beef when people say they don’t like beta men) but just the guy in the background with the quiet confidence and the core of steel.
My favorite at the moment is Colin from Meljean Brook’s Demon Moon. Definitely a Charmer first and foremost, with Warrior and Lost Soul undertones.
I’ve always had a serious soft spot for Jamie Fraser from the Outlander series. That man is smokin’ hot.I love beastly men too… but right now in recent reads.. Cam from Mine Till Midnight has completely one over my heard. He’s one hot gypsy! Sigh…
I can think of a good charmer though. Rejar from the book of the same name by Dara Joy was a charmer.The hero from “Nerd in Shining Armor” by Vicki Lewis Thompson was a good example of a best friend archetype. He was surprisingly sexy too. I loved that book. I’m pretty sure his name was Nick.
My favorite Professor–MacAllister Booke from Nora Robert’s Heaven and Earth. Brilliant and clumsy, but oh, so sexy.
I never do comments, but I couldn’t resist here…Jamie Fraser wins hands-down because he encompasses all the archetypes.
And Harrison Ford — best professor/swashbuckler/warrior(Indiana Jones).
Is it cheating to love one of your own character?! I adore Nate Fox in A Little Night Music (Sarah Dale). Mostly a bad boy and charmer, with a bit of lost soul thrown in (after all, the heroine has to have something to work with!). Sigh.
Ranger, from the Stephanie Plum series, is one of my favorite heroes. Give me a warrior any day. There’s just something about a man with weapons…
Help is here for the Best Friend category. Luc Fiorelli from Project Daddy. Can’t believe you didn’t think of him.My hero hottie is Matthew Lassiter in The Reef (by Nora Roberts). I thought about him for a long time afterward, but it’s been so many years I can’t remember why. Maybe I should reread it to jog my memory.
Oh, we’re talking book heroes here, huh? Well, well. I think I’ll go with a very old one. Anne McAllister’s Code of the West books featured one man named Riley in her Stardust Cowboy novel. He is noble, brave, handsome and just a little bit shy, too. A cowboy to die for.
My vote goes to Rhage from J. R. Ward’s Lover Eternal. Also, I love Vaughn in Nalini Singh’s Visions of Heat.Bad boys willing to go the extra mile.
Ooooh, fun!I’ve been on a recent SEP re-read kick, so her books are on my mind. And I love all these guys: Heath Champion from Match Me if You Can is a classic chief; Kenny Traveler from Lady Be Good is a charmer, with maybe a little lost soul thrown in; Dan Calabow is a chief; Bobby Tom a charmer. Dex was a professor, and quite fun.Suzanne Brockmann: Sam Starrett was a charmer (?); Max was a chief; Grady Morant was a swashbuckler extraordinnaire (!); what about “the chief” (what was his name? the one who got together with Terri the helicopter pilot?) — he was a best friend, I think (they’re kind of rare in books, huh?)J.R. Ward’s almost all seem like warriors? Maybe some lost souls too?
Jamie Fraser has to be it. He is everything a women could ask for. He is always the perfect match no matter what the situation demands. Leader. Lover. Father. Friend. Scholar. Humorous. Lethal. Sexy. He’s got it all in one nice little package!
I have to go with Jamie Fraser also. He has no equal in the hero department. I don’t go in much for paranormal romance, but Cian from Nora Roberts’s Circle trilogy was awfully hot. Being a vampire, he’d have to be in the lost soul camp, but there was some warrior there too.
Jamie Frasier gets my vote!As for professor? Denise Rossetti’s Miriliel the Burnished. He’s scholar, and a little bit of warrior, yet oh so oblivious. *snickers* So adorable. It would have been better though if he had a pair of glasses. ’cause glasses are really really sexy.
Re heroes — there are so many that I am having trouble confining my ideas to a few rather than a multitude. I will accept Harry Potter as a future professor and a present helluva Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, but my all-time favorite professor is Indiana Jones — teacher, warrior, friend, chief, whatever you want to call him, I think he qualifies as the Best, hands down. A fellow member of the audience at the first showing of Raiders of the Lost Ark was heard to mutter (during the truck chase): “Gimme a professor like that! I’d be a double A student! Hell — a triple A student!” Amen, lady, whoever you were!
Okay, maybe no one else agrees, but what about Gilbert Blythe from the Anne of Green Gables books as the “Best Friend?” Here here to Jaime Fraser being an all-encompassing hunk of a hero.
So I’m supposed to pick one fave hero? not possible