Top Ten Tuesday...

 

Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week's theme is supposed to be Fictional Crushes. But that really didn't work for me. So I tweaked it. Here's my list of....

Favorite Recurring Characters:

❤ Mercy and Adam

(Mercy's a coyote shapeshifter and Adam's an Alpha werewolf in Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series--one of my all time favorite fantasy series.)

❤ Evan Smoak  (Aka Orphan X.)

What can I say? I love this series!

❤ Alex Verus

(A time mage in Benedict Jacka's awesome urban fantasy series. The last book comes out later this year and I can't wait to read it, although I'm very sad to see this series come to an end.)

❤ Mercy and Truman

(She's an FBI agent, and secret prepper, and he's the Police Chief in Eagle's Nest, Oregon, in Kendra Elliot's Mercy Kilpatrick mystery series.)

❤ John Taylor

(The man who can find anything from Simon Green's excellent Nightside series.)

❤ Mattie Cobb and her K9 police dog Robo.

(From Margaret Mizushima's Timber Creek K-9 mystery series.)

❤ Harry Potter & Co.

(By J.K. Rowling, of course.)

❤ Lady Kiera Darby and Sebastian Gage

(From Anna Lee Huber's Lady Darby historical mysteries.)

These two make such a great team!

❤ Mercy & Travis and their dogs Elvis & Susie Bear

(From Paula Munier's K9 mystery series.)

 ❤ Peter Ash

(From Nicholas Petrie's adventurous and action-packed Peter Ash series.)

❤ Casey Duncan and Eric Dalton

(from Kelley Armstrong's Rockton series.)

Honorable Mention:  George Holloway!

(From Katie Ruggle's Gone Too Deep.)

Isn't it crazy how many characters named Mercy made this list?

Let me know who some of your favorite fictional characters are!

Happy Reading!

Favorite Fictional Characters...

The other day, Chuckles the Scot did a fun post about her favorite things. Among many other topics, she listed her favorite book characters, which got me thinking about who my favorite literary heroes and heroines are. So I came up with my own list. Here are my favorite bookish characters:

Ladies first:  (All ten of whom are smart, stubborn, strong-willed, independent, and full of spunk...which is why I like them!)

• Mercy Thompson  (Shapeshifter & car mechanic extraordinaire...who actually only has one tattoo:  a coyote paw.)
• Kiera  (artist & amateur detective from Anna Lee Huber's Lady Darby Series)
• Raederle of An  (from Patricia A. McKillip's Riddle-Master of Hed series...my all-time favorite fantasy trilogy!)
• Mina Harker (No one in Bram Stoker's Dracula is tougher than Mina!)
• Lacey Flint (Sharon Bolton's complicated detective constable)

• Menolly (daughter of Yanus Sea-Holder, apprentice harper, and owner of nine small dragons)
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (Who's both character and author.)
• Kit Tyler (from Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond)
• Lisbeth Salander (Probably the toughest girl of the bunch...and yet it was her vulnerability that really made me like her. Created by Stieg Larsson, of course.)
• Nancy Drew (Need I say more?)

Now for my favorite leading men:

• Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin (He tops my list!)
• Gabriel Allon (Daniel Silva's complicated Israeli artist & assassin)
• Morgan of Hed (Did I mention already that Patricia A. McKillip's Riddle-Master of Hed Series is my all-time favorite fantasy series?)
• Harry Potter (Who needs no other introduction!)
• John Charming & John Taylor (This is a tie for me between Elliott James' exiled Knight Templar and Simon R. Green's hero of the Nightside who can find just about anything. They're both awesome!)

• Joe Harmon (from Nevil Shute's classic novel.)
• Francisco D'Anconia (my favorite character from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, although Dagny is a close second and almost made my first list of favorite female characters)
• Agent Aloysius Pendergast (Preston & Child's enigmatic and one-of-a-kind FBI agent)
• Alex Verus (Benedict Jacka's mage who can see into the future)
• Kaspar Krone (the only clown I've ever liked and hero of Peter Hoeg's The Quiet Girl)

Honorable mention:  All of Louis L'Amour's reluctant heroes...especially if their last name happens to be Sackett.

So, there you have it. My favorite fictional characters, male and female. It was hard narrowing it down to ten each, because there are a lot of great book characters out there, which means many characters that I love didn't make the list. But if I'd tried to list them all, this post would have been way too long.

Who are some of your all-time favorite book characters?

Happy Reading!