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Love Triangles! Love em or hate em!?!?!? What are some of your favorites or most hated love triangles? Are they always extra drama or sometimes necessary to get the character to realize her feelings? Discuss!

I usually don't like love triangles. If it's really well done, a love triangle in which you have no idea with who the main character is gonna end up, is acceptable (still don't like it); but most of the time is really easy to predict who is going to be the chosen, and in general the other guy is so friendzoned, all the time, that is horrible. I think that bothers me a lot, because is a lot of drama when you already know what's gonna happen. Maybe someday I'll read a book with a good love triangle and I will like it... but for now, I kind of hate them.

I like love triangles. However, I tend to like one of the guys more than the other and want the other guy to move on from the girl. To me the added drama makes the book more exciting. My favorite love triangle is from The Convenant Series by Jennifer L Armentrout.

HATE THEMMM!!!!! I just do, i just can't, i just don like them. I usually choose the other guy. that sucks.

i hate triangles because i look for plot development. there is no actual character development in them either. i often wonder, has there been any character who spent equal time on choosing a career path instead of boyfriends. i find any dilemma over a guy as pathetic. especially if the said teen cannot make up her mind.

I only hate love triangles when the girl is already in love with one of the guys and the other guy still pines for her.

I love to hate them. I spend a lot of time pesting against love triangles, because they are too predictable, because they cause too much drama...but I still read and appreciate stories featuring them.
When they are well written, when the characters have believable reactions and though process, they can be interesting. But most of the time, I consider them guilty pleasures. I am not ashamed of liking them but I still criticize them a lot.

I LOVE love triangles. It adds a degree of anticipation because I always have my favorite that I am cheering on no matter what the actual plot of the story is.

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I absolutely hate them but not because I dont like them but because it makes me so mad sometimes how it all develops. A love triangle well done is addictive but when its not, it only makes me want to stop reading because I already know what is gonna happen. The love triangle that happens in the A matter of fate series by Heather Lyons OMG so good and so sad yo get to love both the guys! But for me it was always clear who she wanted more and who I wanted her to stay. So yeah its a love/hate situation.

Honestly I hate them, I like relationships that's between just two people.
It could be okey if it's at the beginning of a relationship I guess but not after you fall in love with someone, I mean it's obvious who the girl will choose and the other guy will be dissappointed.
Anyway loyalty is big in my book. So I rather not read books with love triangles. But of course I can't escape them completely since almost every ya book has a love triangle in it. And I think the one I hated the most would be the Starcrossed series by Josephine Angelini (and I had really liked the first book). I mean you don't even see the main guy in the 2nd and the 3rd books.
But I'd read it if it's something like Darkness Before Dawn series. The girl already had a boyfriend when she met the main guy (Victor) and when she was really sure of her feelings she dumped her boyfriend, and she didn't do it just to be with Victor, but because she thought it'd be unfair to the other one even if it wont work with Victor.
Anyways this is just my opinion. I like epic love stories, stories in which the couple fights for each other. so I try to find books about soulmates mostly.

I think with me it's a love hate relationship with love triangles because I love them when they're exciting and all that but I them and get frustrated when the character is with one of them and I like the other person. Drama drama

love triangle simply teaches how to cheat. how come that the girl is love with one guy and suddenly decides to love another? its illogical.

no, i really, really hate love triangles. they're annoying in the sense that authors sometimes spend 99.9% of the book jerking the MC between 2 potential love interests. In most cases, it is always clear who the heroine would end up with [usually the unfeeling, bad-boy, abusive douche]

Lili wrote: "no, i really, really hate love triangles. they're annoying in the sense that authors sometimes spend 99.9% of the book jerking the MC between 2 potential love interests. In most cases, it is always..."

True that!

I used to like them, but now they're annoying. There needs to just be one girl or guy. No more stringing someone along! And then, when one of the people in the love triangle gets rejected, the author feels obligated to give them a happy ending too which, I guess, is only fair to fans.

Marshanah wrote: "I used to like them, but now they're annoying. There needs to just be one girl or guy. No more stringing someone along! And then, when one of the people in the love triangle gets rejected, the auth..."

you are totally right. *cough bloodlines cough*

I think love triangles are so overdone now- authors trade them for plot and character development trusting that readers will keep reading the series just to make sure their couple finally officially gets together. I agree that someone is almost always getting stringed along for no good reason. No one deserves that, even a fictional person. :) there's only a few stories where a love triangle actually adds to the plot some like hunger games. Then there's the majority which feel like twilight. You know who's getting the girl- why drag out the love triangle?

I really, really, REALLY hate the love triangles if they aren't playing any significant part in the plot but are added just because author thought...well, I don't know what author thought but if everything revolves around those stupid love triangles, well, books lose their charm.

I hate the fact that there's always have to be that one person who's heart ends up being broken at the end.
somehow, the guy that I'm cheering for always ends up without the girl.

Irena wrote: "I hate the fact that there's always have to be that one person who's heart ends up being broken at the end.
somehow, the guy that I'm cheering for always ends up without the girl."

Adrian, Rose and Dimitri for example.
I always preferred Adrian tbh

Luna wrote: "Adrian, Rose and Dimitri for example.
I always preferred Adrian tbh"

Same. I always wanted Rose to end up with Adrian. Dimitri did nothing for me. I also usually want the guy that the girl doesn't end up with. Which is why I really hate love triangles. Although was happy with the Adam/Warner/Juliette one and with the Nash/Tod/Kaylee one.

As long as the triangle serves the story, I'm all for it. But triangles have been done to death. There's really no point to them and I end up feeling cheated with whatever the heroine ends up choosing.

However bad this sounds, it's almost never two girls and one guy. I would hate that in a story, but goodness shake things up or don't have it at all!

Jennifer wrote: "Luna wrote: "Adrian, Rose and Dimitri for example.
I always preferred Adrian tbh"

Same. I always wanted Rose to end up with Adrian. Dimitri did nothing for me. I also usually want the guy that the..."

I preferred Adrian too, but I always thought Rose didn't deserve to be with him because she was taking him for granted.
I never saw that ''God aspect'' in Dimitri. He was my least favorite male character in the series.

the popular triangle i hated was the one in infernal devices. it was so stupid. also the triangle in selection trilogy got so bad i wanted to throw the book.

I've always thought that there is beauty in love triangles. It shows not just the beauty of love between two people, but also emotions such as confusion, jealousy and doubts. It gives more excitement to the love story and more meaning to love when the main character finally chooses the person he/she really wants to be with.

I kinda hated the love story of Tessa, Jem and will from Internal Device though...she was just too selfish, in a way I guess. It was so easy for her to go from Will to Jem then back to Will again which I just didn't like.

I absolutely hate love triangles because u usually love both of the characters and don't want them to have their hearts broken. My least favorite love triangle would have to be the one in twilight between Bella, Edward, and Jacob.

My favourite love triangle is Tessa, Will and Jem from the Infernal Devices. They're so perfectly characterised - in a way that it would break a reader's heart to either boys go. (view spoiler)[And the relief when you see that despite all tragedy, both boys got to grow old with Tessa by their sides. (hide spoiler)]

My least favourite love triangle is Gale, Katniss and Peeta from the Hunger Games. The whole time, Katniss was never sure about who she loved - or if she loved either at all. As a reader, something told me that this would never work out the way it worked out for Tessa. She was not in love with both boys at once. Despite how much I love the trilogy, I have to say, the ending was very weak and rushed. (view spoiler)[The way Gale left Katniss was too sudden - too unsatisfying for me as a reader - landing Katniss with Peeta. Pathetic. (hide spoiler)]

I totally agree with Victoria that most of the time the author makes one boy more desirable so you kind of know who she is going to end up with. The only love triangle where I truly didn't know who she would end up with was in The hunger games and I loved the suspense of that. It truly hurt me to think of either going. But Shadows is right, although I enjoyed the suspense build up the end was disappointing as it felt more like Katniss just settled for someone, she want really in love

My favorite is Adam, Juliette, and Warner from Shatter Me because both of the guys are great options;)

I hate love triangles for two reasons. One, the girl always chooses the wrong guy most of the time. And two, there is so much time wasted reading about a girl trying to choose between two hot guys.

Hmmm, just a thought but did you ever hear of a love triangle of a guy with two girls?

No because girls should never fight over a guy they should use that guy as a thing that they have in common become best friends and leave the guy with no options whatsoever:)

And Riley I have to kind of agree with you I mean if you have two hot guys fighting over you that's more than we could ever hope for in real life. If both guys are equally perfect just have them do rock, paper, scissors best out of three and get it over with, or choose the one that has more money, I learned that from my science teacher, no need for a whole book about how hard it is to be you

In all honesty, it depends. Sometimes I hate both, sometimes I like both. Most of the time if I hate both guys, I hate the love triangle as well - it's no fun when you hate 66% of the triangle. If I like both guys, then sure... why not? ^_^

Lately love triangles have been utterly predictable - it tends to get a tad annoying. -_-

@ Alexandria

Yes! The guys look completely different, but act the same. The girl always agonizes over who to chose the entire first book in most series. It ruins the relationship with the guy she chooses and then the girl always thinks constantly about the guy she didn't chose.

Alexandria wrote: "And Riley I have to kind of agree with you I mean if you have two hot guys fighting over you that's more than we could ever hope for in real life. If both guys are equally perfect just have them do..."

lol.