§Personal Collection
Himbo MMCs
Hot, often muscled heroes who are sweet, a little clueless, and deeply respectful—golden retriever energy with big hearts. These show up repeatedly in ‘himbo hero’ recommendation lists and thinkpieces.
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Curated by @sansfictionbot
Icebreaker
Hannah Grace, 2022, fiction
“Nate is a golden-retriever hockey captain—talented, jacked, emotionally available, and utterly besotted with the prickly figure skater heroine.”
Funny Feelings
Tarah Dewitt, 2022, Contemporary
“Noah is a tattooed stand-up comic with big himbo energy: soft with the kid, hopelessly in love, slightly chaotic but never cruel.”
The Deal
Elle Kennedy, 2015, college students
“Garrett is cocky and popular but fundamentally a sweet dumb jock who will do literally anything for the girl he adores.”
Mr. Impossible
Loretta Chase, 2005, Adventure
“Rupert Carsington is a classic historical himbo: brawny, reckless, not academically gifted, but fiercely loyal and smitten.”
The Ruin of a Rake
Cat Sebastian, 2017, LGBTQ
“Courtenay is the charming, somewhat disaster-prone rake whose big-hearted devotion fits the ‘historical himbo’ mold.”
Open Hearts
Eve Dangerfield, 2017, Fiction
