Another Tuesday, another edition of Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl!). Today we’re going to talk about book characters I’d love to be besties with. For the purposes of this little thought experiment, I’m just going to pretend that I’m the same age as any of the other characters. That’s part of the fun of reading, anyway, to pretend that you are living someone else’s life!
Alina Starkov – Shadow and Bone
Alina seems to have a good heart. She just wanted to live a simple life, maybe with her childhood friend, Mal, but that’s not how things were for a while. I think she’d make a good friend who wasn’t arrogant or pretentious or anything.
Clary Fray – The Mortal Instruments
I wouldn’t want to detract from her friendship with Simon, of course, but Clary would probably make a pretty good friend. Certainly life wouldn’t be boring! Maybe she’d sketch pictures of some of my book characters. I don’t know if she plays D&D or not, but if she doesn’t, Simon and I might be able to drag her into joining a campaign.
Violetta Amouteru – The Young Elites
Much as I have sympathy for her sister Adelina, I don’t think she’d make a very good best friend. However, Violetta deserves a million points for loyalty for sticking by her sister even when she’s not exactly being the nicest person. Loyalty is always a good thing to have in a friend.
Scarlett Dragna – Caraval
Part of me thinks that maybe Scarlett’s sister Tella would be the more interesting friend, but she might present more drama than it would be worth. But Scarlett would be a good friend, and like Violetta, she’s likely to be loyal. Then again, if Scarlett was my best friend, Tella would probably end up dragging us both on adventures, giving us the best of both worlds.
Cyra Noavek – Carve the Mark
While I certainly wouldn’t want to deal with Cyra’s brother, Cyra could probably have used a friend. She’s thoughtful, and if you ever got into trouble, she could kick your enemy’s butt.
Dimple Shah – When Dimple Met Rishi
Today’s list seems to have a lot in common with last May’s Top Ten Tuesday “Characters that Remind Me of Myself” but I guess that can’t be helped. Dimple Shah would make a good friend though. We could talk about computer code and study for all those computer science tests together.
Taylor Nicholson – Start Here
Taylor would probably make a very interesting friend: after all, she’s willing to take a sailboat from Ohio all the way to the tip of the Florida Keys! I don’t know a lot about sailing (although I had to learn in college) but I’m sure that going on an adventure like this would be a lot of fun. She probably would want to get out and explore other places as well.
Free – Into the Hollow
It just says something good about your character when your dad isn’t really that responsible but you’re willing to do what you need to in order to take care of your younger brother. Despite the difficult circumstances Free grew up with, she still turned out to be a pretty good person. I bet she’d make a pretty good friend as well.
Camille Durbonne – Enchantée
Camille is another person who you can tell would make a good friend because of the way she cares about her family (we’ll just forget about her dirt-bag brother). She’s also curious and is interested in the latest technology, like hot air balloons. If I was transported to pre-revolutionary France and ran into a hot air balloon, I’d probably think they were fascinating as well.
Gin – Crow Flight
Gin from Crow Flight would make an interesting friend. First, she’s into computer programming, so we’d have something to talk about. She’s also pretty smart to have figured out the whole thing with the crows (no spoilers here). Anyway, you couldn’t do worse than to have a friend who’s smart and into computers.
So there are some book characters that I think would make good friends. Who did you put this week? Next week we’re going to talk about my favorite tropes.
What a fun list of books. My literary besties
Thank you!
Great list! I’d definitely be up for a hot air balloon ride in pre-revolutionary France.
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Or even today! I’ve been a couple of places where it was offered, but it was too expensive.
Dimple was wonderful, but I selected Sweetie as my bestie from among Menon’s characters. Though, I feel like I would be honored to be friends with either of them, as both had a lot of great qualities.
Sandhya Menon has said that she’s most like Sweetie, so you’re in good company!
Yikes, I am so bad — I only actually know Dimple on your list! I am off to check out the rest!
I hope you like them!
Yeah, I’d want to hang out with Free, too.
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🙂 She’s one of the lesser-known characters on this list too.
Dimple Shah is a wonderful choice.
My TTT.
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Especially if you’re more on the Erudite side!
I loved Dimple when I read that book! I’m so glad you picked her. I also like Alina and Mal, although I don’t know if I’d rather be friends with Alina OR Mal. Maybe both! Great list 🙂
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They’d probably both be good friends.
I *STILL* haven’t read Sandhya’s books, but they seem full of fun characters who’d make great friends! I’ve also never read a novel by Trish, but did start one years ago that I just didn’t care for. Someday I should give another of hers a chance. 🙂
Thanks so much for visiting Finding Wonderland, Brooke.
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I got the kick in the pants to read her books when she was coming to speak at a couple of writing/book conferences I was going to. I’m so glad I did, because now I’m on her street team! I hadn’t heard of Trish Doller until Start Here, but I liked that book at least.
Alina made my list this week too. I love her character so much!
Great list 🙂
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Alina seems to be a popular choice, even though a lot of Grishaverse readers are divided about Mal and the Darkling.
I really need to read some Cassandra Clare. The Shadowhunters universe seems pretty fun. Crow Flight looks good too- that one’s new to me.
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You’d probably like the Shadowhunter world. The stories are so interwoven though that I’m more impressed the more I read of them, because they keep such consistency, even though the history is fairly complex.
OKAY, SO, YES TO THIS ENTIRE LIST. I knew you were going to come in hot on some of my favourites when you started with Alina and Clary and boy did the rest of your list not disappoint. I’m here for all of these but ESPECIALLY Scarlett. I really regret not including her or Tella on my list this week, as Caraval is an all-time favourite, but my brain was just peacing out on me when I wrote mine haha!
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🙂 Glad you liked the list! I’m sure there are a couple I forgot too, but we can only include 10. Well, we could… but then the list would get too long.
It’s funny that I picked Tella in my list haha!
Yeah I saw that! Tella would be a good friend too.
I’d be totally down for hanging out with Scarlett and I agree. She’d be a better balance. Tella would likely get your killed pretty fast LOL
I didn’t even think about that!
I think Dimple would make a really good friend. I’d like to think her drive would rub off on her.
She’s definitely a hard worker!
Great list! I really need to check out Shadow & Bone. It’s been on my TBR forever!
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That one took me a while to get to as well!
You know, Camille would make a great friend!
🙂
Love that you added Dimple and Alina, they’d be great friends for sure!
I wonder if they’d be friends with each other?