Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. Today’s theme was:
Ten Characters Everyone Loves But I Just Don’t Get or Ten Characters I LOVE But Others Seem To Dislike
Seven characters everyone loves but I don’t
Lara Jean from To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
America from The Selection series by Kiera Cass
Aspen from The Selection series by Kiera Cass
Scarlet from The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (Okay, I don’t HATE her but she’s definitely my least favorite)
Etienne St. Clair from Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (also don’t HATE him and I totally ship him and Anna but meh)
Safi from Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
Ms. Marvel
Three characters I LOVE but others don’t
Damian Wayne
Cricket Bell from Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling (I know not everyone hates him but there are a decent amount of people out there who don’t like him. I do)
What about you guys?
I agree with you about America from The Selection series. I didn’t even like the series that much, mainly because I kind of hated America. Great list.
SAME! She is the main reason I didn’t finish the series. I only read the first two.
WHO LOVES ASPEN? Are there really people that do?!? I just. I can’t even with him. He’s always my “character I’d like to kill” hahaha. Awesome list, girly! ❤
Brittany @ Brittany’s Book Rambles
Hahahaha. I HATED him. But one or two of my teens liked him. I mean, not as much as Maxon (who was the only character in those books I liked – I only read the first two), but still.
I too am meh about Etienne, but mostly because he really grates on my nerves when I really think about his cheating. Also, I feel like nothing about him is really interesting except from the fact that he’s, well, foreign.
Here’s my TTT.
YES! Thank you! I’m so glad I’m not the only one.
YES. I didn’t like Lara Jean either! But everyone seems to love her…she was so annoying to me and read off as a 13 year old and it was UGH.
EXACTLY! She felt like she was a child. So whiny and immature.
I definitely agree with you about Aspen, America, Lara Jean, and Etienne. Lara was so whiny and even though her insecurities are seriously real for high school girls, she definitely gets on my nerves. And I HATED how flip floppy Etienne was about his relationship. I don’t know, I just didn’t find him as romantic as the other Perkins boys. Are there honestly people out there that don’t like Cricket?? He’s easily the best book boyfriend from that series. I love his awkwardness and how sure he was about Lola from the beginning. Great list!
YES! I hate how flip-floppy St. Clair was too. He was definitely my least favorite Perkins boy. And yes – there ARE people out there who don’t like Cricket! When I met Stephanie Perkins, I told her Cricket was my favorite and she said she didn’t get told that that often, but he was her favorite too. 🙂
America is on all of our lists today. She should get an award or something…Happy reading! https://ireadboooks.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/characters-that-annoy-the-hell-out-of-me/
HAHAHAHA. She’s just the WORST.
I thought about including Snape on my list, but figured the Malfoys were more hated instead!
My TTT: http://bookclubbabe.net/2016/03/08/top-ten-tuesday-characters-i-love-but-other-people-dont/
I definitely liked Malfoy in the end. I really wanted him to redeem himself. And in a small way, I think he did.
Totally agree!
I also love Cricket Bell … but then again I love Laura Jean and Etienne as well. Although I do far prefer Cricket to Etienne … like any day of the week a better boy.
Cricket all day every day, Alison. Lol.
My thoughts exactly.
I love Cricket Bell. Lola and the Boy Next Door is my favorite book in the companion series.
SAME!
I love Snape! He’s just so misunderstood. Great list 🙂
I completely agree!