Meme - Day 18

18. Favorite antagonist and why.

Sometimes antagonists are my favourites in general, but usually in other peoples writing.

I almost always love the serial killer bad guy characters. The Surgeon in Tess Gerritsen's series was a favourite of mine. I think I like the fact that with serial killers and evil murderers, when you show their POVs, everything is totally justifiable to them. There's something I really like about being able to create a character that has no normal moral compass.

As far as antagonists in my own novels, I always loved to hate Melanie Wyndham from Brookline. At first she was the stereotypical "mean girl" just to be mean, but I have since come up with an interesting back story on her and I hope to weave it into the story a bit more to explain her actions.

I also liked the fact that I used characters people liked as antagonists in Sandy Cove. Niki's sisters often served as her antagonists, but her sisters were a lot of fun to write and just a bit out of control, not evil or anything. Maddy's sister April was often her antagonist. There were no "bad guys" in these antagonists, which I think a lot of people assume has to be the case.