Top 5 Wednesday: Favorite Literary Fathers/Father Figures

Happy Wednesday To All My Fellow Readers!

I hope you're all having a great week so far. I hate to admit it, but I was tempted to skip out on my Top 5 Wednesday Post this week. Unfortunately, work has been beyond belief stressful the last couple of days as we've been having a huge lack of consideration from some of our employees who haven't felt like doing their job properly, and as such, the rest of us have really had to pick up the slack. With all of this going on, I really didn't think I'd be cheerful enough to do this week's topic justice, but I decided not to let those people ruin this for me, and I'm going to go ahead and do it anyways.

To anyone unfamiliar with Top 5 Wednesday, it's a weekly meme that was created by Lainey from gingerreadslainey, and is now moderated by Sam from Thoughts On Tomes. The group communicates through goodreads, and here's the link if you're interested in learning more about it:

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/118368-top-5-wednesday

This week's topic, as you can probably tell from the post title, is Favorite Literary Figures Or Father Figures, and I honestly found this topic to be slightly difficult. This was mainly due to the fact that I feel like so many books, especially in the YA genre, tend to have an absentee father trend, but I still came up with five of my favorites, and I'm so excited to share them all with you guys today.

However, before I go ahead and talk about my picks for this week, I want to warn everyone in advance that if you have not read these books or series, please do not read this post, as it may definitely contain

                    SPOILERS!!!!

For anyone who isn't familiar with them, and I hate spoiling books for anybody, so please just take this into consideration before continuing on with reading this week's post.


1) Ibrahim "Abe" Mazur from Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead:

Despite Abe's sinister, and sometimes corrupt way of doing things, I think the reader was definitely shown how much he cared about Rose in the risks he took for her safety, and to ensure her future. While he's probably not a typical choice, I really enjoyed Abe and Rose's relationship, and honestly, it's no wonder that Rose ended up with her sarcastic, and hilarious personality with who she had for parents.


2) Eli from Nowhere But Here by Katie McGarry:

From the first moment I picked up this amazing book by Katie McGarry, I fell completely in love with it. While Emily has lived most of her life believing that her birth father chooses to stay absent from her life, Katie's amazing storytelling digs into a much deeper story. The reader is definitely shown just how much Eli loved Emily, and how hard it was for him to stay away from her, but how he was doing what he thought was best to ensure her safety. I loved this somewhat unexpected relationship between father and daughter, and I can't wait to read more about the characters in this series.

3) Maxon from The Heir by Kiera Cass:

Probably my favorite part of Kiera Cass choosing to continue on with the Selection series, is that the readers get to see Maxon and America as parents. Maxon remains on my list of all time favorite book boyfriends, and I loved getting to see this side of him as a parent, and as an adult. All the characteristics I loved in his character so much definitely continue on with these next books, and Eadlyn and her siblings are definitely lucky to have such an amazing dad!

4) Joe Solomon from The Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter:

Joe is probably a bit of a strange pick, but I loved how throughout the series he becomes a sort of father figure to Cammie, despite blaming himself for her father's disappearance in the first place. I also loved the budding relationship between him and Rachel (Cammie's mom), and I was a huge fan of Ally Carter taking their friendship in this direction. Joe is definitely my favorite father figure, and I wanted to include at least one pick who isn't an actual "father" in the true sense, cause I feel these characters are just as important.

5) Lastly, I'm going with my favorite father from any book I've ever read, and that is Jim from Whatever Life Throws At You by Julie Cross:

While this book is about a forbidden relationship between the main character and the baseball pitcher that her dad is currently coaching, I loved how the relationship between Annie and her father was still a huge component of the book. Jim and Annie have always had to rely on each other, as his wife is more of a fame whore than anything else, and the two of them have become the perfect team. Jim has an amazing opportunity in a new coaching position, but his main concern is whether or not Annie will be okay with him doing so. Furthermore, Annie was not a typical teenager who had no respect for her parent's whatsoever, and actually, her dad's opinion is extremely important to her. I loved this father/daughter relationship, and I can't recommend this book enough honestly.



That's it for my five picks for this week. I honestly recommend any of these books as I loved them all. I can't wait to read everyone else's picks for this week's topic, and I'll see you all in my next post.

Thanks for reading guys!


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