Have you ever read a book with a character who was so annoying that you wanted to reach into the book and slap them?

Bella in twilight

Holden Caulfield.

The prince from children of blood and bone, forgotten his name, zelie annoyed mrtoo, I loved the princess and zelie’s brother instead. Also Nesta in A court of frost and starlight and girl on the train MC.

Gone girl!

So many times. Not just slap them but strangle them!

Yep! Asa in Too Late by Colleen Hoover

Ha! Ha!…..from my book ‘On Either Side Part 2’……*
Back in England, around mid-morning of the following day, Cecil Pratt was pottering in his greenhouse, disinfecting dahlia beds with a water-pot and spray when two large men wearing trilby’s and black leather overcoats (collars up of course) opened the flimsy glass door and approached him, heavy footsteps echoing ominously up to where he stood. One was slightly taller and looked more intimidating than the other. Cecil was wearing reading-glasses on the bridge of his nose which steamed-up ridiculously with the sweat of fretting brought about by their uninvited and unexpected arrival. To Cecil they looked like a couple of mobsters, a visit he hadn’t anticipated in his little haven world cushioned by horticultural silence from the lively chaos that spun society outside and elsewhere.
The taller man looked at Cecil, his eyes shadowed intimidatingly by the peak of his hat. He tried his best to smile from a natural grimace then spoke, his foreign accent gravelly and deep; but the words slipped precisely from his tight lips and were politely presented. ‘We are looking for Brenda Pratt. Is she here?’
‘I’m afraid not,’ replied Cecil nervously.
‘Are you her husband?’
‘Yes, Cecil Pratt,’ said the councillor, feeling more at ease with a polished regard for the man’s courtesy.
‘When is she due back?’ questioned the big man patiently.
Cecil thought for a moment; somehow he’d smelt a rat. No one ever visited his greenhouse so what did these two want with his wife? He knew everyone she knew and vice versa. Best that he assess the situation with a civil servant’s perspective and that sagely wisdom that accompanied his status. He didn’t recognise either of these burly looking foreign strangers so why should he tell them where she was? And the big man’s manner seemed so lame and innocuous it was time to stand his ground and stick up for Brenda. ‘She’s staying with a friend at the moment,’ he eventually answered.
‘Where is that and who is the friend?’
‘I think it would be wrong of me to divulge that information without Brenda’s permission,’ said Cecil stubbornly.
A look of impatient displeasure struck the big man’s face. ‘Where is she?’ he growled belligerently.
The big man’s sudden change in attitude, from civility to intolerance, induced a wave of rebellious chivalry to flush Cecil’s thinking. He wanted his wife back one day, and the sooner the better. Then he would show her that he was twice the man she thought he was. No time like the present to put this gutsy new gallant streak into practise. He stuck his nose in the air defiantly. ‘I’ve already told you that I’m not prepared…..’
The big man’s punch was so hard that Cecil flew backwards like a stone from a catapult, across one of his dahlia beds, through a pane of glass and finished off sprawled upon the concrete path outside his greenhouse with a ghastly bloody nose. The big man walked over to him then picked poor Cecil up like a rag-doll. ‘I thought you might need a little reminder?’ he said dryly.
A moist patch spread around Cecil’s groin. His face felt like it’d been trodden on by an elephant and he was gasping for air like a guppy on the beach. ‘Yes, you’re quite right, how stupid of me….’ He stumbled his words so nervously that one fell into the next without a stop or start. Then he gulped for air again. ‘I’ll just go and fetch Brenda’s address book. I won’t be a moment.’

Yup. I even wanted to dance w/ a character & have “play time ” 😉

Yes.

Yes. And I must say I pride myself in writing such a character because it gives the book life if you don’t only love or hate a character. We all have a annoying person in our life, so there probably would be one in a book to. That being said as a reader, I HATE THEM ??

Yes!

Yes but later on, he became my “husband goals”

Feyre from ACOMAF

Dean Koontz Intensity, character…Chyna

Absolutely!

Gone Girl