It’s not easy being a real boyfriend when there are so many book boyfriends showing them how it really should be done. Whether it’s a smutty romance, a dystopian drama, or even a quaint rom-com, book boyfriends constantly step up in ways to support the main female characters. In recent years, there has been more focus on developing smutty and dark romance couples, but YA still has a place to show how a man should act.
When it comes to Goodreads users, the YA book boyfriends are the favorites. Veronica Roth immediately stood out with the development of her debut YA series, Divergent. The first book ranks in the No. 5 spot on the list of “Best Book Boyfriends” of all time, proving that protection and support are exactly what’s needed.
Tobias Easton, better known as Four, was originally a member of Abnegation. Like Tris, he made a switch to Dauntless, and we would later learn that he was also Divergent. However, there was a lot hidden underneath the “brooding” walls that he built around himself to protect.
Tris had heard of stories about Four and his father, Marcus. She had heard that Four had grown up in an abusive household, and everyone believed that he had left Abnegation to escape that abuse. In fact, we would later learn in Four that he did actually get Abnegation in his aptitude test, but he followed the motto “Faction before blood,” and left for Dauntless.
Where did the name Four come from? Due to his minimal number of fears. He is only scared of four things, with one of them being his dad. It was remarkably low and something that needed to become part of his personality.
‘Divergent’ Was Originally Written From Four’s POV
Since the success of Divergent and the other two books in the series, we got a side novel titled Four to delve into the character. It turns out that the series was originally told from Four’s perspective, with what Roth called a “proto-draft,” which was a few pages with Four telling the story. His voice didn’t work as well for it, so Tris ended up being the initial narrator.
However, there was still that story of how Four left Abnegation, and Roth has explained in past interviews that, “I knew I wanted to write about his decision to join Dauntless, which I've been interested in since Divergent, when he reveals that it was pretty much to get away from his father. I thought that that was a very interesting choice for him to make, kind of a big "screw you" to Marcus.”
It wasn’t easy to create Four’s reasons for leaving his home, though. While it sounded easy, Roth explained to Goodreads that, “The exciting part was working through his decisions as he makes them because they sound so easy in the trilogy, when he talks about them, but they came to him with difficulty (refusing a leadership position, for instance—not something he just decided on the spot). I think my favorite part to write was the "surprise! Evelyn is still alive!" scene; there are so many complicated emotions there, and I was never sure what she would say.”
In the end, Four found himself drawn into Tris’ ability to face her fears. She acts despite them, and one thing that makes him such a great book boyfriend is that he learns from that instead of feeling threatened by it. There’s no doubt he’s a book boyfriend to keep, and fans agree.
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