My Kind of Heroine: What makes a good heroine? by Dena Garson #PNR #Eroticromance

 

As I sat down to write this post, I thought about some of my favorite heroines. My original intent was to give you a list of my favorite heroine but I quickly realized what a large list that would be. So I decided to focus on what it was about those characters that I liked so well. Here’s a list of things those character have in common.

1.  Humor. A heroine should be able to laugh at herself and maybe even the hero (“with” the hero is probably better though). At a minimum, a heroine should be able to find the humor in life.

2.  Hopeful. Hope is a powerful thing. It gives you strength to go on even when all seems lost. A heroine should have a healthy dose of it or be in a position to give hope to others.

3.  Self-Sufficient. Romance is about two people coming together and falling in love. But that doesn’t mean one becomes dependent on the other. I prefer my heroines to get up and slay their own dragons instead of waiting on the prince to come along and save her.

My Kind of Hero: Everyone loves a hero by Dena Garson #Romance #amreading

Heros. There are songs dedicated to them. Quite a few songs actually. Everyone loves a hero.

But I strongly suspect how we define a hero varies from person to person.

Sometimes a hero is the boy who tells his friends to stop picking on his next door neighbor just because he has a lisp. Or maybe it’s the young man who asks the girl who’s clinging to the shadows if she’d like to dance even though her dress isn’t this year’s fashion. Then again it might be the man who helps repair the roof on his elderly aunt’s roof so it doesn’t leak anymore.

In fiction, particularly a romance, a hero is often created with a much stronger story line. They are men who rescue people or animals from raging fires, doctors who save lives every day or scientists who discover cures to horrific diseases that might affect thousands. Or they’re the characters who were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the heroine or a city of people by disabling a ticking bomb or stepping in front of a bullet.