Winged Reviews - Booking Through Thursday: Secondly

reviewer: Daphne June 7th, 2012 Booking Through Thursday

Welcome again to Booking Through Thursday, where we each answer a book-related question. We’d also love to get to know you better, so leave a comment with your answer or a link to the post on your blog and we’ll drop by to visit! This week’s question is:

Favourite secondary characters? (Note the plural)

Daphne’s Answer:

I love secondary characters, most of my favourite characters are. Usually in stories the main character is a little boring because he/she has to be responsible or set an example. The secondary characters get to be funny or snarky and show off a bit more personality, IMHO. A shortlist of my favourite secondary characters are:

Peeta Mellark ♥ from The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
Silk (Prince Kheldar) from the Belgariad and Malloreon series by David Eddings
Puck from the Iron Fey series by Julie Kagawa
Professor McGonagall from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
DEATH from the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

Ali’s Answer:

I agree. Secondary characters seem to be given much more ‘fun’ roles in books. They don’t have as much responsibility to save the day and be the hero so I think they often end up with bigger personalities. My first choice (Sam) although classed as a secondary character seems to have the best motivational speeches in all three books, is loveable and never gets the credit he deserves for saving Frodo’s arse every five minutes… yet he is still a secondary character!