Favorite characters of 2007

Posted by Shannon C. on January 2nd, 2008 filed in fangirl squee, musings

I’m still futzing around with importing stuff, but I wanted to make sure I at least got in a bit of new content, so here, have my top ten favorite male and female characters I’ve met this year.

ETA: Duh. It might help if I listed the books from which these characters came. What, you couldn’t read my mind? How silly of you!
Top Five Female Characters

  • 1. Eve Dallas from the In Death series by J. D. Robb - Loved her, flaws and all. She is strong and kicks ass, and yet, she is still very much a vulnerable woman.

  • 2. Elli Quinn from the Miles Vorkosigan books - She keeps growing on me the longer I read the Vorkosigan books. She’s funny and snarky, and can shoot off a grenade launcher when she needs to. What’s not to love?
  • 3. Phoebe Somerville from Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s It Had to Be You - I was a little bit anxious about being able to relate to someone who regularly carries around a miniature poodle, but I loved Phoebe’s vulnerability, and I loved that she just wanted to make people happy, including herself, and she really didn’t know how to do that.
  • 4. Dela Rheese from Marjorie Liu’s Tiger Eye - Spunky, again kick-ass, and someone who very definitely had relationships aside from the hero.
  • 5. Sascha Duncan from Nalini Singh’s Slave to Sensation - She considered herself an aberration, someone who felt emotions even though she wasn’t supposed to. She could have been a cold, evil bitch who was hard to deal with, but she wasn’t.

Top Five Male Characters

  • 1. Miles Vorkosigan from the series of books about him by Lois McMaster Bujold - I just adore him. He’s smart, he thinks fast on his feet, and he’s kind of hyperactive. People are bemused by him, and don’t always know what to make of him. I adored him for that, and for his myriad little ticks and psychological quirks.
  • 2. Lucas Hunter from Slave to Sensation - A sensual but very dominant alpha male. I loved the way he teased Sascha and that Sascha instinctively trusted him. I also loved his interactions with the rest of the members of his pack.
  • 3. A tie between Rhage and Zsadist from the Black Dagger Brotherhood books - I loved them both for very different reasons, and I loved watching them sloowly begin to heal from the crap that happened to each of them.
  • 4. Roarke from the In Death books - He’s rich, he’s Irish, and he’s crazy about Eve. Sometimes he strikes me as a bit too perfect, but he really is perfect for Eve and so I love him.
  • 5. Keman from the Elvenbane books - Not really a hero in the classic sense of the word, but I loved meeting this dragon. I loved his sense of honor, and his loyalty to his foster sister, and the fact that, even as a child, he did everything to protect her, and didn’t see her as a pet the way the adult dragons who raised Shana did.

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