Revelations

I was just talking about the Maze Runner - which I'm currently reading - with my flatmate, and how it has a male main character and how it's nice to read from his point of view after all the females in the Hunger Games and Divergent. And then it struck me. I think most of my favourite books have male protagonists. I really started to think about it, and yes, it's true.

It's not a bad thing, that's not what I'm saying. It doesn't matter in the slightest. Somehow I just hadn't realized it myself, not until I really thought about my favourites shelf (pictured above; not all are my favourites, I just didn't have shelf space left anywhere else) and really thought of if the main character is male or female. Interesting, how that had never even crossed my mind before. I had just read these books, liked them a lot, and decided they were my faves.

I find a lot of female leads annoying. I don't know what it is, maybe they are a bit helpless and stupid, maybe all they think about are boys. Maybe they do things without thinking them through, maybe they have relationship issues that could be easily solved if they just used their brains a little. Maybe it's none of those things and something else entirely, I couldn't say.

And sometimes it doesn't have anything to do with what sex the main character is; sometimes the story is just so good it could be written from either male or female point of view and nothing would change. This is the case in a lot of my favourites, but I do admit that I love the main characters in some if not most of them. They wouldn't be my faves if I didn't love more than just one aspect of the book; if I did it'd just be a good book, or a good main character. Or good writing, maybe.

I don't know what the point of this was, I just started to think about this yesterday. It's interesting, at the very least. And as I'm really enjoying the Maze Runner, I think this will be a continuing thing with my favourite books. But I don't mind, I love me some great male protagonists. ;)