The theme this week for Top Ten Tuesday over at the Broke and the Bookish is:

‘Top Ten Characters You Wish Would Get Their OWN Book’

I sort of struggled with this – as I came up with suggestions I realised that some of them had already had their own series developed and so some on this list may still fall into this category although I did remove a couple.

1. The Marquis de Carabas out of Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.  A very interesting character and one that I would happily read more about.
2. Lord Ermenwyr and nursie from Kage Baker’s Anvil of the World.  This is a very engaging and entertaining read and Lord Ermenwyr and his (ahem) nurse make it even more so!
3. Death from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series – you have to admit that Gaiman writes some very intriguing secondary characters!
4. Stefan, the Vampire out of the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
5. Sigrud, the Viking out of City of Stairs by Robert J Bennett.  Without a doubt Shara stole this story but I definitely feel that Sigrud could carry his own book!
6. Syl and Kaladin from Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings and Words of Radiance.  I love this pair of characters.  Love. Them.
7. The Copper Cat from The Copper Promise by Jen Williams – what a bloody ace character.  Give me more.
8. Samwise Gamgee from Lord of the Rings – a definite sidekick but one with his own very enjoyable character.
9. Magnus Bane from Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments
10. Severus Snape from J K Rowlings HP – you have to love Snape.  You do.  Really.

Bit of cheating going on above as some of these are two for the price of one!  But, rules are made for breaking.

Now it would have been easy to start this list with a couple of favourites – for example, Jean Tannen from Scott Lynch’s Gentlemen Bastards.  Now, I love this character, truly, but, first, he’s definitely no sidekick and second, Jean and Locke have pure banter going on – if you put him in his own book you’d lose all that witty repartee (or snark).

So, who would you like to read about??