Good morning! After taking a break last week I’m back joining in with Top Ten Tuesday! Today’s prompt features on book characters I’d love to be besties with – some may be a little predictable but I hope one or two will surprise you!
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
Book Characters I’d Love to Be Besties With
Hermione Granger from Harry Potter
Now for people who know me this is a pretty obvious choice. Quite a few people I know have compared me to Hermione so I’d like to think we’d get on well! Getting to know Luna through Hermione would certainly be a bonus too!
Lyra Belacqua and Pan from His Dark Materials
I could have picked so many characters from this series that I’d love to be friends with, especially Iorek, Lee and Serafina. However I’ve gone with the character who introduced me to this whole wonderful world, Lyra – and of course you couldn’t be besties with Lyra without also being besties with her dæmon Pan!
Beverley Brook from The Rivers Of London Series
I absolutely adore this series, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith really brings it to life in the audiobooks and so many of the characters sound wonderful! I’ve chosen Beverley Brook who is Mama Thames’s daughter and the goddess of one of the smaller rivers in London. She also sounds like such fun!
Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott from the Strike Books
Despite not being a couple these two really come as a pair so I’ve had to pick them both! A Friday night glass of wine with Robin or a Saturday watching the football with Cormoran would be great fun!
Jules Ember from the Everless Duology
Now being besties with Jules Ember is not neseccarily the safest place to be in Sempera. That said Jules comes across as a genuinely lovely person and I’d love to discover more about Sempera and its history with her and Liam.
Izzy O’Neill from The Exact Opposite Of Okay
Who doesn’t just love Izzy?! I think she sounds like such a fun person to hang out with! I’d quite happily pop down to the diner with her and enjoy a milkshake or two!
Bartholomew from Everdark
Now I absolutely adore Smudge from Everdark but I feel a deep connection with the snarky monkey Bartholomew. He is almost certainly my spirit animal and I feel we would get on very well, enjoying a nice cup of tea and cursing the state of the world!
Suzy and Wilmot from The Train To Impossible Places
I feel like Suzy is me from a few (too many) years ago so we’d get on pretty well, and Wilmot is just adorable and needs a little more belief in himself so I’d love to travel around the Impossible Places with them delivering post!
Malkin the Fox from The Cogheart Adventures
Now don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adored Lily and Robert but it was brave Malkin the fox that captured my heart! I would very much like my very own Malkin for my day to day life!
Nettie Delaney from SING (Like No One’s Listening)
I’m certainly not talented enough to earn a place at Dukes but despite all the drama of her first year Nettie seems to have a lot of fun with Alec, Leon and Kiki. I’d love a night out or two with that group!
Those were ten book characters I’d love to be besties with! Who would you pick? Let me know in the comments!
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Lilyfae
LOVE Suzy and Izzy! Great choices
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Sarah - SWB
Thanks! It was a lot of fun, although I realised I read an awful lot of crime books filled with characters I certainly wouldn’t want to be besties with!
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Lilyfae
That is rather true!!!
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lydiaschoch
Welcome back to TTT! Hermione is a wonderful choice. I want to be her friend, too.
My TTT.
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Sarah - SWB
I suspect an awful lot of people will have put Hermione on their lists this week
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Leelynn @ Sometimes Leelynn Reads
Lyra and Pan! I can’t believe I forgot about them. I need to do a reread. I think I only finished the first book. I don’t remember anymore 😦 Great list 😀
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Sarah - SWB
I’m actually planning on picking them back up this week. I’m hoping to get through them by the time The Secret Commonwealth comes out
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Aymee (@asphaltcowgrrl)
The crew from Hogwarts is getting a lot of love today! But I wouldn’t have ever thought of Comoran and Robin, although they have the best partnership.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
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Sarah - SWB
Thanks for visiting!
I’m not surprised that the Hogwarts gang have turned up on a lot of lists, they’re a great bunch!
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Krystianna Straley
Great list! I’d totally want to be friends with Hermione too, but I think Luna as well. I love your blog header by the way!
Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian
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Sarah - SWB
Thank you! I made it around Christmas while I was bored!
I think the Harry Potter characters hold a special place in a lot of people’s hearts so I expect a lot of people would love to be friends with them
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Jessica at Booked J
WOO! So many great picks. I’m always happy to see Hermione on lists. HP is full of so many must-list characters. I had to control myself from listing about 35 others. (Also, yes, Luna, too! An excellent bonus!)
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Sarah - SWB
I probably could have gone on and on listing HP characters if I let myself. I feel like I grew up with them all so any of them could be a friend!
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goldenbooksgirl
I’d LOVE to be besties with Bartholomew. I adored him. Your other choices are great too, especially Malkin!
Amy x
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Sarah - SWB
Thanks Ames!
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CharlotteSomewhere
A lot of these would make my list. I think Cormoran and Robin would be fun to have around as long as they kept me out of their work. I’d also love to be friends with Hermione, Lyra, Pan and Izzy.
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Sarah - SWB
See I wouldn’t mind getting stuck into a little bit of work with the two of them, as long as I got invited to pop along to the Tottenham with them at the end of the week!
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