Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.
This Week’s Theme:
Characters Other Readers Enjoy
Whom I Could Do Without
Initial Thoughts:
The real tagline for this post is “it’s not me…it’s you”.
Alina Starkov (The Grisha – Bardugo)
You chose the wrong one.
Malyen Oretsev (The Grisha – Bardugo)
Imagine paint drying. Okay, now you’ve met Mal.
Mare Barrow (Red Queen – Aveyard)
Everyone’s selfish in their own way…then there’s Mare tier.
Mara Todd (Messenger of Fear – Grant)
Just bland.
Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye – Salinger)
Phony.
Sky (Hopeless – Hoover)
21st Century Amish.
Safiya fon Hasstrel (Truthwitch – Dennard)
If Truthwitch is a fan fiction based loosely off of an author’s friendship, does that mean I’m anti their friendship too?
Cadence Sinclair (We Were Liars – Lockhart)
Boo hoo you didn’t get to eat with your favourite spork.
Evan Walker (The 5th Wave – Yancey)
The alien version of Edward Cullen is–wait for it–still a creeper.
Clary Fray (The Mortal Instruments – Clare)
Based on the television show, you could get hella turnt if you made watching Shadowhunters into a drinking game. Two shots every time Clary mentions her mother. Three shots every parabatai gaze. Ten shots every time they mention the cup.
Afterthoughts:
Mad. I am mad.
Cheers,
Joey
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thoughts and afterthoughts. 
I seriously didn’t like Evan either. Not sure why everyone shipped him with whatever the girl’s name is. Or was that Ben Parrish?? I don’t even know…I didn’t like any potential love interest w/ the girl.
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haha I couldn’t even remember the names of the We Were Liars characters and to be honest the only part of the book I do remember is the ending.
I’ve still not watched The Shadowhunters. Is it worth the watch or should I just give it a pass. I don’t know how much cheesiness I could cope with haha.
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Holden Caulfield was pessimistic, and annoying as one can be. While I didn’t HATE Catcher in the Rye, I really didn’t like him.
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Awww…. I keep seeing Safiya on these lists. that makes me kind of sad.
But then I can totally agree on Clary and Mare. Especially Mare. *shudders* Glass Sword was a mess.
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I’m only 15% into Glass Sword, so I haven’t met overly annoying Mare yet. I did laugh at Sky being on your list, though. 21st Century Amish? LOL. I liked her, though. I am surprised I didn’t see a particular sweet brown cracker on here!
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It’s so nice to see that other people are creeped out by Evan Walker too. He’s honestly one of the scariest love interests I’ve read in YA and I don’t get the appeal at all.
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haha love your description of Mal! And yup- I could do without both Mal and Alina. Great post!
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I didn’t think Alina and Mal were that bad since Nikolai was so ridiculously underdeveloped and under-utilised. Like why was he turned into a BAT?! And omg, I totally understand Safi. Remove Safi and whatshisname, and make the series about Iseult and Aeduan instead!
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So is Safi Susan Dennard or Sarah J. Maas in the friendship? I’m 30 pages in and I don’t really see where the book is going. -.-
Do people actually like Holden? I always thought he was one of those characters everybody hates; oh well, guess I’m in the minority here with you. *virtual fist bump*
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Mare Barrow I could do without. I didn’t connect to her character, and had no investment whatsoever to her cause. I’ve only watched the movie for The 5th Wave, so I don’t know if I can really judge Evan. But based off the movie, I don’t know how I feel about him. He was more of an eye-candy for the movie more than anything.
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I totally agree with you on Mare, Holden, Evan, and Cadence.
Pretty sure you’d die of alcohol poisoning after just an episode or two at that rate! 😀
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LOL. Did anyone actually like Mare?
Evan is super creepy, he is the reason I quit reading the rest of the series.
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Ahah, great list! I think we agree on Mare, she’s just too annoying. We should actually create a whole other category to qualify her, she’s above everyone in that, ahah :p
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While I don’t know the other characters, Cadence really didn’t do much for We Were Liars. Actually, none of the characters really did.
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I agree so much about Mal and Alina. Not far enough into 5th Wave to have met Evan/have an opinion on him.
And I just like the commentary on the others, even though I haven’t read any of their books and thus can’t have an opinion on them.
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ALINA DID NOT CHOOSE THE WRONG ONE, AND SOME PEOPLE ARE ADDICTED TO SNIFFING PAINT, KAY?! O.O *huffs*
*huggles Mal*
…
I’m cool.
Brittany @ Brittany’s Book Rambles
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I didn’t like Alina either! That’s why I never finished the series. The TV show got Clary so wrong, I stopped watching. She was always my least favorite Cassandra Clare character, but the show makes it really bad.
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I am a loyal Cassandra Clare fan as you know but I totally second your vote on Clary. In the books, I didn’t really care for Simon either. He actually comes off super annoying. XD
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In the books I’m not a fan of Simon, but you’re right about Clary in the show. I laughed out loud at your drinking game; the show is bad enough that I keep watching just for the amusement (and to stare at Alec because good god is that boy good looking!).
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Hahah oh Joey you are so hilarious! Especially about Evan Walker, definitely he pulled the creepy vibes *shudders*. And I wasn’t a fan of Clary either, even though I’ve only read the first 2 books.
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