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I find a lot of them either extremely pushy, distressingly smug, or needlessly antagonistic.

All sterling qualities in a partner, indeed.

I liked Ivan the Jewish boxer from Let It Shine

I remember that novella! I should check again to see if it exists in print, in which case I can read it.

and was interested in Evan the neurodivergent spy from A Hope Divided, except Evan is also a torture expert, which is, one might say, a bold choice in a romantic lead ...

It certainly doesn't mess around with the angst quotient. Where did he fall on the spectrum of un/forgivable protagonists?

This is a thing I keep hearing about romance heroes, though: that so many of them are actually assholes. Why is this a trope? Literally who wants that?