Lately, I' ve been searching for good books to read, and I've noticed something:

Pretty much every book seems to end with the main character in a relationship.

I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, but I feel like the female protagonist might get a bit more done if she's not consumed by her feelings for this guy that she likes.

I'm just saying, sometimes a boyfriend is not necessary. If your book is about the struggles of growing up, then sure! Adding some romantic confusion to your book will be totally fine.

But if your book is about how some cool adventurer dude navigates a deadly magical labyrinth, maybe you could give him some different motives.

How about: he's trying to get this ancient artifact that's supposes to help him save his village? Maybe he's training for some sort of epic final battle, and he figured that this maze was challenging enough?

I'm just saying, this adventurer dude could be trying to save a princess neing held captive by the dragon in the center of the maze, or he could be searching for a special medicine to revive his dead girlfriend, but there are way more motivators than just love.

But if you're really bent on writing a love-motivated plot, who said it had to be romantic love? I'm going to use the Percy Jackson series as an example here, just because it makes sense.

You see, Percy went on a quest to save his sorta-girlfriend Annabeth, but he also went on different quests to save his camp, his friend Grover, and even to save the master bolt of Zeus, which would prevent a war.

So, you see, although Percy doea at times have a romantic motivation, other times it's to save a home, or a friend.

This is kind of a rant, but not really, so I'm writing it here.

Pig out!