Today marks the 4th time someone compared me to the main character from Catcher in the Rye and every person I know who has read the book tells me that it's not a good thing so I have decided to actually read the book and judge by myself. (I'm not prepared for this.)

Which character from a novel would be a total red flag for you? I understand that a lot of dark romance characters would fit in this list, serial killers, criminals, abusers, and other archetypes that are universally hated as well would fit in here. So, to avoid obvious answers, beyond those if you were reading a book and realized that this person was written to give you the ick, even though in the book they have a point, who would it be?

“The performance of certainty seemed to be at the root of so much grief. Everyone in America seemed to be afraid and hurting and angry, starving for a fight they could win. And more than that, they seemed certain their natural state was to be happy, contented, and rich. The genesis of everyone’s pain had to be external, such was their certainty. And so legislators legislated, building border walls barring citizens of /there/ from entering /here/. ‘The pain we feel comes from them, not ourselves,’ said the banners, and people cheered, certain of all the certainty. But the next day they’d wake up and find that what had hurt in them still hurt.”

If you were a book, what genre do you think you'd be? I love anything historical, so I'd be a historical romance or historical fiction. I love fantasy as well, but I don't think I'd survive long in any of my favourite fantasy series.