Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Top Ten Tuesday: My Favorite Supernatural Literary Characters

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by The Broke and The Bookish! This week's theme is a Halloween-centered freebie! Since Halloween is all about ghosts and witches and supernatural beings, I figured I'd highlight ten of my favorite magical-type characters.



Hermione Granger (Harry Potter): It should probably come as no surprise that Harry Potter's biggest nerd and most type-A personality is my own personal favorite witch/wizard in the series, right?

Serafina Pekkala (The Golden Compass): They don't really do, like, spells, but the witches in the His Dark Materials series are powerful nonetheless (and ageless, and beautiful).

Mogget (Sabriel): In the magical universe of The Old Kingdom series, Mogget is a reluctantly tamed beast of pure magic who usually appears as a little white cat and is sarcastic af.

Daine Sarassri (Wild Magic): I loved Daine as a teenager who loved animals...her ability to commune with creatures great and small made me long to have the same ability (now that I'm a grown up I just try to cuddle my sometimes standoffish pug).

Galadriel (The Fellowship of the Ring): The beautiful, powerful elf queen doesn't get a lot of pages devoted to her in The Lord of the Rings, but she's memorable because she's amazing.

Melisandre (A Dance With Dragons): Melisandre was an irritating character to me until we started getting her point of view perspective in the most recent book in the A Song of Ice and Fire saga...now I just want to know mooooooore.

Sookie Stackhouse (Dead Until Dark): We learn later in the series what Sookie actually is, but when we meet her, we just know she's a waitress. And a telepath. And a delightful character, generally.

Viane Rocher (Chocolat): She rejects the label of "witch", but she has real, albeit subtle powers that give this lovely novel a touch of magical realism.

Mr. Wednesday (American Gods): This book features a bunch of interesting gods and goddesses, but the dynamic Mr. Wednesday, with his rumpled elegance and faded glory, is my favorite.

The domovoi (The Bear and the Nightingale): This book is filled with creatures from Slavic folklore, but my favorite is the domovoi, the house-spirit, who does small household magic in exchange for offerings of bread and milk.

8 comments:

  1. Great list! Hermione will always be my favorite witch. :)

    Aj @ Read All The Things!

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  2. I love this! I adore the fact that you included Sookie, too. And of course my girl Hermione. So many great picks!

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    1. I loved the way Charlaine Harris wrote Sookie! She was such a great character

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  3. The domovoi is absolutely one of my favourite fantasy creatures I read about this year! The bear and the nightingale was such a good book! Great list!

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    1. I actually went and bought a little carved domovoi off Etsy after I read the book because I loved the one in The Bear and the Nightingale so much!

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  4. I actually really liked Sookie Stackhouse as well :) And of course, Hermione Granger, who is my favorite witch ever. Galadriel was so intriguing as well!

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    1. Sookie was fantastic...I watched the first few seasons of the show but much preferred book Sookie. And I think all nerdy book girls have a special place in our hearts for Hermione :)

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