Besides the tentacles, my favourites are cowboys, cops and smart guys...

Tentacles. :p I like smart guys. I wish there were more of them. You know what? Make that smart characters overall in every genre I read. Nothing wrong with flawed characters, making bad decisions —BUT it get so annoying when you read one not-so-smart MC after another after another after another to OMG is everyone just stupid?

Yes, tentacles. :-) And also like Tami and Experiment, I really like the MCs to impress me with their brains. I want them to be good at their jobs, good at figuring things out, and smart all around.

If a character is new at his job he doesn't have to be good at it right away, but he should be getting better quickly. Mistakes should arise out of inexperience or what is happening to the character and not be temporary idiocy needed to further the plot.

I adore time travel, alternate times lines, alternate reality - anything that tweaks reality and lets me see how it all plays out. Science fiction in general is a fav. I like sub genres - contemporaries have to be really well written to hold my attention.

I love tentacles. ;)

I like characters to be tenacious, but at the same time also vulnerable. I like them to have defects, faults, problems they can't easily overcome. They don't need to be smart, but I prefer them grown up, with grown-up solutions to problems, and I want them to eventually make the best of what they have and are, even if it isn't that much. My ideal MCs are everymen. I like well-researched historicals with characters behaving the way they used to then, but I also love scifi, horror and mysteries.

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I usually get that issue in the YA genre. I know teens make bad decisions. I've been there a few years ago and am still living with the consequences of my bad decisions, But there's just something so depressing and kinda offensive when almost every teen character I read acts so TSTL. There are bad decisions, and then there are *bad* decisions. I recently read a YA in which the heroine falls for her kidnapping and coercing love interest. *facedesk*

I second that remark on contemporaries. I like my settings to be far removed from reality. On historicals, it depends. If a majority of the book is about LGBT issues and conflicts and fighting that good fight, no thank you. Hard to deal with that in real life, let alone back then when things were horribly, horribly bad.

So right on the TSTL!
Brains are sexy, definitely!

I also like my heros a bit mature - I noticed that I get quite impatient with the young ones...

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Do you default to thinking the men are around your age unless the book or its description specifically points out otherwise? I do. I always imagine my fictional men in their 20s... Haven't noticed that the young ones are immature because I default to thinking all of them are young. :p

Hah, good point :-)
Normally I hate it, when I don't get a clear picture of how they look, how old they are and so on...I am a lazy reader that way, I want it all laid out for me :-)
I started prefering adult/mature heros/heroines while ageing myself...and isn't that sad...

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I'm reading this right now too. I think it's actually m/m/m with a weird alien armor system as the third guy. It's really great, if also really weird.

Bone Rider sounds good. I a wish listing it.

I finally started the Infected series by Andrea Speed and I'm totally hooked. Though...no sex? Can't remember the last m/m book I've read without on page sex. It's been awhile!

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Yeah she doesn't write sex, anything that happens is fade-to-black. Which is funny considering Roan gets CERTAIN PEOPLE as sidekicks not too further on.

edited because apparently the spoil tags does not work for the little summery or whatever you see before clicking on the thread