Marisa Kashino’s Best Offer Wins features one of my favorite tropes, the unlikable female main character (UFMC). Writing a UFMC is such a difficult balancing act: make her flawed enough to be engagingly frustrating, but not so flawed that the reader can’t quite believe that anyone would be willing to put up with her BS. The Queen of UFMC is of course Amy Dunne from Gone Girl. (Spoilers ahead for Gone Girl in case you want to continue living under that cozy rock.) She is […]