Imagine the added baggage of dating an immortal with a realistic love-life history… Not to mention the self-esteem issues of growing older while they remain forever in their prime.
What’s worse is that I can never quite believe that they’d fall for a plain-(often whiny)-Jane kind of girl that our average-everywoman-heroine tends to be. Sometimes, these books explain it by way of a magical, mystical bond, but even then, I can’t imagine a more frustrating pairing. Surely it’d be like a 15-year-old being best friends with a second-grader. At best, it’s a patronizing fondness.
Hmm, now I wanna read a romance where the female is the angsty ancient something-or-other and the guy is human. I wonder if it’d sell, if only for novelty’s sake.
The Book Canaries 
Imagine the added baggage of dating an immortal with a realistic love-life history… Not to mention the self-esteem issues of growing older while they remain forever in their prime.
What’s worse is that I can never quite believe that they’d fall for a plain-(often whiny)-Jane kind of girl that our average-everywoman-heroine tends to be. Sometimes, these books explain it by way of a magical, mystical bond, but even then, I can’t imagine a more frustrating pairing. Surely it’d be like a 15-year-old being best friends with a second-grader. At best, it’s a patronizing fondness.
Hmm, now I wanna read a romance where the female is the angsty ancient something-or-other and the guy is human. I wonder if it’d sell, if only for novelty’s sake.
Go forth and write it… you know you want to.
…I do. I can’t get it out of my head!
Please remember to have the man dress in as little as possible, and strut around as often as possible with smoldering, adoring eyes 😉
LOL! Love the graph. Totally agree with you that it makes absolutely no sense. And please write that story! 😀