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Secondary/Minor Characters Who Deserve More Love

 I absolutely love this topic! I often find myself interested and wishing to learn more about secondary and/or minor characters, especially those I feel were shortchanged; poor Ismene from Antigone always comes to mind. 

Happy Top Ten Tuesday over at That Artsy Reader Girl!


Secondary/Minor Characters Who Deserve More Love

1. Ismene from Antigone

2. Susan from The Chronicles of Narnia

3. Persephone, Maura, and Calla from The Raven Boys--I would love a prequel (or three) about Blue's mother Maura and her psychic friends. Aunt Jimi and Cousin Orla too.

4. Zoya from the Grishaverse books--we don't know much about her family or how she became involved with the Darkling. But she puts her grievances aside to do what is right when she doesn't need to.

5. Death (pronounced Deeth) and his cat, the librarian with a Graced memory in Bitterblue

6. Teddy and Saf's sisters Tilda and Bren, also in Bitterblue, always felt like they could have been more part of the story, with how they found Saf and ran the printing press



Comments

Lydia said…
I totally agree with you about Susan! I always thought Lewis could have done so much more with her.

My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-secondary-characters-who-deserve-more-love/
Greg said…
Ooh Susan from Narnia! Love that pic. Just thinking of those books makes me want to go pick them up now. :)
Pam said…
Great list! I haven't read any of these books.

I twisted the topic some, as I have trouble remembering secondary characters.

When you get the chance, I hope you stop by my post: https://readbakecreate.com/10-books-that-deserve-more-love/

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