Most of us love a believable romantic interest in our fiction and we here at FRA are no different. We’d been chatting about couples that we wished had got together and those that hadn’t worked, and of course those that worked so wonderfully it was a wrench when the book ended. So we thought it would be nice to know which were your favourites. So we asked our Social Media followers to vote for their favourites and these are their top twenty.
A foregone conclusion I suppose that the forever divine duo of Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett top our Romance poll.
Jamie and Claire from Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series are a deserved second.
Third is a couple that never actually quite became a couple, your collective hearts become all aflutter over the romane that wasn’t between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara from Gone With the Wind
Sweet Peeta and tough cookie Katniss are next.
Rourke and Eve Dallas are a much loved romantic duo from the futuristic (ish) In Death series by J.D Robb.
The classical romance of Heathcliff and Cathy from Wuthering Heights is your sixth choice.
Jane Eyre and her lovely Mr Rochester are next…
Followed closely by a personal favourite; Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood from Cassandra Clare’s wonderful Mortal Instruments. I completely ‘ship’ these two.
A modern YA romance next, Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters from the hugely popular The Fault in our Stars.
Last of our featured romantic couplings is Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chace from the brilliantly written YA series by Rick Riordan.
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The next ten, in the order of nomination are:
Edward and Bella ~ Twilight
Anna and Charles ~ Alpha and Omega
Kate and Curran ~ Kate Daniels
Holmes and Watson ~ Sherlock Holmes
Ron and Hermione ~ Harry Potter
Adam and Mercy ~ Mercy Thompson
Anne and Gilbert ~ Anne of Green Gables
Jace and Clary ~ The Mortal Instruments
Aelin and Rowan ~ The Glass Throne
Emma and Edwin ~ A Woman of Substance
Have these delectable duos left you with a warm fuzzy feeling inside? We hope so, please feel free to add your own choices to the comments section, we always love hearing from you.
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