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Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 6:42 PM

Cisco Writer’s Club Rendezvous With Writing

An Unlikeable but Compelling Character

An Unlikeable but Compelling Character

What do a historical romance novel, a Christian historical novel, and a classic 1918 novel have in common? The three novels in this case are Unborn Melody by Leah Lindeman, The Rubicon by Aubrey Taylor, and The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington, and they all have unlikeable but compelling main characters.

Lindeman, Taylor, and Tarkington use the same four techniques to make their distasteful characters compelling to read.

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