Booklist Thursday - Great Male Characters

[00:00:00][music] >> Hey everybody, welcome back to Lindsey's Little Library. So today is Thursday, which means it's Booklist Thursday.

[00:00:10]Booklist Thursday is something I do with Sarah over at Sarah's Nightstand. We come to you every Thursday with some sort of book thoughts, ideas, recommendations, something bookish related.

[00:00:19]So today, in honor of Father's Day, and a huge happy Father's Day to all of the amazing dads, or would-be dads, or pretend dads, or fill-in dads, or stepdads, anybody out there that provides some sort of fatherly support to somebody, this is your day. And I hope that you are celebrated and appreciated, and um just happy Father's Day. So.

[00:00:43]Um so in honor of Father's Day, we're going to talk about books that have some really great male characters in them.

[00:00:51]Are all of my father All of mine fathers? No.

[00:00:54]>> [laughter] >> Are all of them Well, you'll see.

[00:00:59]But they're really great male characters.

[00:01:02]The first one that I thought of immediately um when we came up with this prompt um was to make sure it is. Um it's a signed copy. I was all excited. Um it's Abby Jimenez's Yours Truly.

[00:01:16]So this one follows um Dr. Briana Ortiz.

[00:01:20]Uh her divorce is about finalized. Her brother's running out of time to find a kidney donor, so she's dealing with that stress. And the promotion she wants, she didn't get it. It's going to the new male doctor who's already registered 87 on Briana's pain in the scale.

[00:01:38]Uh but just when all systems are set to hate, Dr. Jacob Maddox enters the enters the game, and um completely throws her off by sending her a letter.

[00:01:51]Um it's a really good letter. Uh and it proves that he's not this horrible male chauvinistic pig that she was thinking he was going to be and he actually actually turns out to be a pretty good guy. So, he's the great male character in this one.

[00:02:08]He is this these two just the way they connect and the way they um use letters to communicate with each other at the beginning uh absolutely loved it. Love Jacob. I think he's one of the best characters out there. If you haven't read this one yet, you really need to. It's fantastic. So, pick that one up.

[00:02:29]All right, next one. This is where I use the word great in quotes.

[00:02:34]Um great male character.

[00:02:36]We have Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Marr.

[00:02:41]Um because our our our great man char- our male character is a villain.

[00:02:47]Like he says he's a villain.

[00:02:49]Um so, we we have Evie.

[00:02:52]She her employment status is uh questionable at the moment and so, she answers [clears throat] this um basically job offer job wanted sign to be an assistant to the most infamous villain around.

[00:03:09]Um no jobs perfect, but when you are at rock bottom bottom you take whatever you can get, right?

[00:03:16]Uh when she's getting used to seeing severed heads suspended from the ceilings and then adds squish or a weird eyeball beneath her heel.

[00:03:24]Um Evie suspects the dungeon has a huge rat and not just the little old kind, but something rotten is going on in the kingdom that she lives in and someone wants to take the villain and the entire nefarious empire out. And the villain runs his empire and runs his establishment like a corporation. There are memos, there are cubicles, there are fire drills.

[00:03:45]It's all ran like a corporation and she's the assistant for him.

[00:03:49]And yes, he's a a villain, but he's got some bright sides to him.

[00:03:55]Should say that. So, this was hilarious.

[00:03:57]This is great. I absolutely love this book. I need to get reading the second one is what I need to do.

[00:04:03]Next one I have, King of Ashes by S.A.

[00:04:06]Cosby. This really great main male character.

[00:04:11]Um we have Roman. He left the smoke and fire of his family's crematorium business and um basically moved to Atlanta, I believe.

[00:04:20]He gets a phone call from his sister telling him that their father is in a coma, a result of a hit-and-run accident, and basically you got to come home and help. So, when Roman goes home, um as a you know, oldest sibling, responsible adult would do, um he learns the accident might not be what it seems. His brother is deeply in debt to very dangerous, ruthless criminals. And his sister not doing so great, either. So, what's Roman willing to do to protect his family?

[00:04:53]Will he literally do anything to protect his family?

[00:04:58]Great main character.

[00:05:00]Great.

[00:05:03]One of those like how far will you go to help your family situations?

[00:05:08]And once you go as far as you think you'll go, will you go a little bit further and a little bit further to help dig people who got themselves into a really big hole to help get them out.

[00:05:19]So, >> [gasps] >> S.A. Cosby can just do no wrong in my eyes.

[00:05:24]I want to read him to zero, but be warned.

[00:05:28]There's some trigger warnings. There's some It's brutal. It's brutal. So, fair warning.

[00:05:35]All right, the next really great male character is coming This one's coming out of the archives. This is like way, way, way on the backlist. Way on the backlist.

[00:05:45]Well, maybe not this one specifically, but just when I first got introduced to this specific main character. So, I am talking about Mitch Rapp. He is the main >> [gasps] >> a male character in the um Vince Flynn series that is now um written by Kyle Mills cuz Vince Flynn unfortunately passed away.

[00:06:05]Um but Kyle has been doing a really great job keeping this going. So, he Mitch Rapp is a CIA like Black Ops agent.

[00:06:14]Um in every book it's kind of like what is what kind of position is he going to be put in to save all all of us again?

[00:06:20]Um he is so fierce, so strong. He He's just like the perfect male character, honestly.

[00:06:28]Um you can't help but appreciate him, love him.

[00:06:33]And it's just a whirlwind of a series.

[00:06:36]Um my husband really really likes these books. I got into them. I'm actually probably a few books behind, need to read a couple of them. Um but got just as hooked. Absolutely love them. I feel like they're little known really great series that's out there. If you enjoy government um CIA black agent type stories, check them out.

[00:07:00]Then the last one I want to talk about, woo, sorry. Last one I want to talk about is a book I just read recently that this main male character who is so great will live in my head rent-free for probably years and years years and years years to come. And it is Life and Death and Death and Giants by Ron Rondo. This main Our main character is Gabr- Gabriel. He is just this huge not only a huge personality and huge presence in the world, he's literally huge. He's just this big kid. And we really just follow his his life and his what he the challenges he faces, the exciting things he gets to do, um the family dynamic, which is crazy. Um he's born to an Amish mother who has been like exonerated.

[00:07:52]Um and his mother passes away, happens right away, it's not a spoiler.

[00:07:56]And so now he has this like Amish side family uh that is there to want and help and support him, but he's also kind of grew grown up by being taken care of his brother outside of the Amish community.

[00:08:09]So he kind of has a taste of that as well, and just follows his life. Um it was fantastic. The writing is beyond beautiful. The story is wonder just wonderful and heartbreaking and just funny at times. It was a really great book and an amazing male character. So those are my five great male main characters or basically main characters um in some books. Head over to Sarah's channel, see what she has for us for our Father's Day um celebration.

[00:08:39]Um anyways, again, all the fathers, I hope everybody has a really, really great Father's Day this coming Sunday. Uh leave a comment below if you have another really great main char- main male character that you would suggest a book of. Otherwise, uh leave some sort of emoji, maybe an idea of what you would get your father for Father's Day.

[00:08:59]I don't know, golf, coffee, something.

[00:09:03]Leave an emoji below. I'd love to see that you're here.

[00:09:05]Um otherwise, join me next time, like and subscribe, and I'll see you then.

[00:09:09]Bye.

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