User blog comment:Charlotte O CATS KOTLC/Why I Don't Like Keefe/@comment-104.254.217.125-20191031014401/@comment-38517513-20191031020918

Interesting, I feel the exact opposite.

To me, Sophitz seems very cliche.

From the moment Sophie has seen Fitz, she has been crushing on him based off of just looks. She constantly talks about his teal eyes, says he has a movie star smile, says that he has impressive muscles. Shannon basically does a lot of things to make Fitz seem like a very handome, royal prince. Someone pointed out that Shannon even gave Fitz a british accent, to make him seem more handome. All of these things are why Sophie has had a crush on Fitz, which has nothing to do with personality.

Also, about your point that Keefe hasn't confessed to Sophie, to me this makes him more likable as a charcter. He knows that Sophie has a crush on Fitz, so he doesn't get in the way. He knows that Sophie likes Fitz and accepts it, but that doesn't mean that he isn't sad about it.

You say that Keefe is too selfless, which is bad, and I agree. The reason that he is like this is because he has nothing in his life that he really cares about as much as Sophie.

You don't like Keefe, and I don't really like Fitz that much.

I feel like Fitz's character is not that great.

He blamed Sophie for his father's death basically, and blew up at her in Exile. This wasn't okay, but I was fine because he apologized at the end of the book. But in Flashback, he got mad at basically everyone when Alvar didn't get sentenced for life. He gets mad at his parents and his sister, and gets mad at Sophie before Keefe stops him. Fitz shouldn't need Keefe to stop him from taking his anger out on Sophie. Later on in the book, he discredits Keefe's ability as an Empath because Keefe didm't figure out his mom was part of the Neverseen. Also, he tries to murder his brother, and Sophie stops him. But after that, he murders Alvar and says that he doesn't feel sorry. It turns out that Alvar escaped, but for all intents and purposes, Fitz murdered his brother and felt no guilt.