This week at The Broke and the Bookish the topic is ‘Top Ten Characters who x’:

1. Make me love them: Aragorn from Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien) (first book crush)
2. Make me hate them: Joffrey Baratheon from Game of Thrones by GRRMartin or maybe his parents – ew!
3. I like them even though I shouldn’t: Loki – he’s not exactly the most reliable of narrators but I really enjoyed The Gospel of Loki by Joanne Harris.
4. I want to be friends with: Lady Isabella Trent from A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan or Lord Ermenwyr from Kage Baker’s Anvil of the World.
5. I would seek advice from: Wit from Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings – okay, I probably wouldn’t understand the advice but it would certainly be entertaining.
6. I would want them to stand in my corner:  Harry Dresden from the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (he can do magic after all!)
7. I would Least want to cross swords with:  Inigo Montoya from William Goldman’s The Princess Bride ‘you killed my father, prepare to die’.
8. I would hate to meet in a dark alley: Lestat from Anne Rice’s Interview With A Vampire (“I’m going to give you the choice that I never had”)
9. I would love to meet in a dark alley: Jean Tannen from the Gentlemen Bastards by Scott Lynch (ahhh, book love)
10. I would never argue with: Jorg Ancrath from The Broken Empire series of books by Mark Lawrence (simply because I like my head where it currently sits thank you very much and he can be a bit, mmm, hasty!)