I’ve talked a little bit about why I wrote the hero of Awake, Luke Reed, the way I did (in this guest post on “Good Guy Heroes” on the fabulous Nancy Kelley’s site), but I have yet to talk about the heroine Alexandra, and why she is the way she is. The now infamous Bella Swan as played by Kristen Stewart There is criticism, and some of it is rightly deserved, of Young Adult novels relying to heavily on the “smart and pretty girl...