No way. GB Patch has well-written, likeable love interests. 13Leagues makes you wait until like... the last two chapters or the last half of the final book until their love interests are even tolerable.
I don't like being compared to another writer period, but you can also leave me and my intolerable LI's and stories alone too lmfao. Go replay your favorite books and find happiness away from here. No one invited you hun. I am an entirely different style of writer with darker themes and this is not a fluff book.