Top Ten Tuesday topic is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic is a freebie!
When this idea popped into my mind, I was worried I had already done a topic like this one once, but the closest I found was My Top 10 Most Memorable Secondary Characters, which I wrote in 2013 and was a list comprised primarily of secondary characters from The Hunger Games. Since then I have read a lot of great books with interesting characters and feel I could create a more varied list, PLUS, make the focus be about the story they could tell. This week’s list is in no particular order.
1. Carswell Thorne from The Lunar Chronicles
Source for Thorne art here
Marissa Meyer gifted us all with a short story about Thorne (that I still have not read!), but seriously, all Thorne fans know only a novel would suffice our desire for more Thorne.
2. Sturmhond from The Grisha Trilogy
Sturmhond is basically the same person as Thorne, and again, we all want more. I would love to know what happens to him after the Grisha trilogy, but I would also love to know more about his life before!
3. Kiggs from Seraphina
I love Kiggs, and I would like to know how he grew up and what made him the way he is.
4. Elend from Mistborn
OK, so I’ve only read book one, and I imagine there’s more of him in the next two books, but I would love to know the details of his royal upbringing, his antics growing up, and what got him started reading those forbidden books.
5. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley from The Harry Potter Series
Again, I haven’t finished all these books either, but I just love Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and I’d love to know their backstory. Did they meet and fall in love at Hogwarts? How did Mr. Weasley end up at the Ministry of Magic? Did they always want a large family?
6. Finnick from The Hunger Games Trilogy
Of course, this list would not be complete without someone from The Hunger Games, and like many fans, I’d love details on Finnick’s backstory!
7. Gemma from The Young Elites
Image on left found on Marie Lu’s The Young Elites Pinterest board
I find the whole thing about Gemma being from an aristocratic family and a malfetto, but not condemned like Enzo, really interesting within the world of The Young Elites, and I want more of her story!
8. Harriet from Emma
I know this ship has sailed, at least for Jane Austen’s perspective, but I would love to know more about Harriet’s life after she married Robert Martin. I was a little surprised when, while watching Emma Approved, I became way more excited about Emma and B-Mart hooking up at the end than Emma and Knightley! It was just really cute! (Those paper cranes!) But when I read Emma, I also found myself really endeared to Harriet there. More please!
9. Caleb from The Divergent Trilogy
I have some unanswered questions about Caleb, and I honestly found him so much more interesting and complex than Tris or Four. I need more!
10. Marguerite St. Just in The Scarlet Pimpernel
I know there are more of these books so there might be more about Marguerite, but I found her really interesting when I read The Scarlet Pimpernel, and my favorite chapter in the book is when she’s at home discovering who her husband actually is.
I was surprised to see this list was mostly guys! But I guess that’s because most of these books focus on a female character. In YA it’s a little more rare to get the guy’s POV, but sometimes I wish I could read their story too!
Which secondary characters would you like to see get their own story?
