I think it has to do with Jace's 'bad boy' image. People are willing to give him more leeway because of that. Only, people don't realize, that in both real life and in literary fiction, in the end the bad boy never gets the girl unless he makes some drastic changes. Could just be me, I was never one of those 'bad boy loving' types. But! I do know in literary fiction, the bad boy always has something that sort of redeems them. Whether it's that they love animals, or are great around children, or something along those lines. Jace has...well nothing because I don't count the Tragic Past Of Doom(tm) because so do many of the 'nice guys' (both characters and actual people). I mean, honestly, personality wise, what redeems him?
You should see the reviews for the Clockwork Angel. Apparently the main male protagonist is exactly like Jace...only 10x worst. Actually, all the characters in Clockwork Angel seem like all of the characters in City of Bones. Shocker, because she didn't have original characters in the first place.
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Date: 2011-05-23 07:53 pm (UTC)You should see the reviews for the Clockwork Angel. Apparently the main male protagonist is exactly like Jace...only 10x worst. Actually, all the characters in Clockwork Angel seem like all of the characters in City of Bones. Shocker, because she didn't have original characters in the first place.