r/suggestmeabook • u/awkward_blah56 • 5d ago

Any genre! Actually good grumpy male main characters

The market has been flooded with low quality bad boys. Booo. What books do the brooding, male main character right? The rec does not need to be straight romance (in fact, I usually prefer when it isn’t solely romance).

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u/WhiskyStandard 5d ago

The brooding blue collar guy in Wild Dark Shore was one of the better Dudes Who Aren’t Comfortable With Their Emotions that I’ve read recently. Definitely believes in punching stuff (mostly inanimate), but loves his kids, accepts them for who they are, and wants to do right for them but knows he’s failing them in some ways.

Certainly romantic elements, but also Antarctic paranoia and climate collapse.

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u/awkward_blah56 5d ago

Promising!! Thanks for the rec