My Book Boyfriend: Dr. Warthrop from The Monstrumologist Series

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My Book Boyfriend is a weekly meme hosted by Missie of The Unread Reader.

Ah, Dr. Pellinore Warthrop. He's harsh, demanding, humorless, insensitive, and recalcitrant. He works his young assistant, Will Henry, to exhaustion, all the while hurling curses at him. To say that Dr. Pellinore Warthrop is not easily pleased or moved is a gross understatement. Yet, there is something strangely irresistible about this difficult man.

If we scrubbed the blood perpetually staining his fingers, flicked off the entrails decorating his clothes, dunked him in a hot bath and ran a comb through his unruly hair, I believe he would look like this.




First, he would have been a poet had he not decided to pursue monsters instead. Second, he plunged deep into the wilderness to rescue his best friend, the same man who married the only woman Warthrop ever loved. Having found that dying man, he carried him on his own weakened shoulders back to civilization. Third, against the entire league of Monstrumologists' weighty opinions, he defended his friend's reputation, though his was the lone voice of dissent.



I well understand why the beautiful Muriel Bates pined for Pellinore Warthrop, the man who chose monstrumology over her, why Will Henry vehemently refuses to be parted from him though he is a tough taskmaster: Warthrop may be harsh, but he is principled and uncompromising. He keeps his word even if it brings him harm. A fearless monster hunter with the heart of a poet. A brilliant loner. He would not make a good husband or boyfriend, but anybody who inspires such steadfast loyalty and loves so deeply is a worthy object of fantasy...