Before my sabbatical, I would spend one Saturday a month on a list post or some other deep dive into a topic. You can find all of these posts together under the category of Saturday Smorgasbord. This week, to wrap up my month off, I am going to revisit three of my favorite posts.
Today, I want to highlight the post about some of my favorite protagonists. While this list was put together over 3 years ago, much of it is still true today. If you asked me to name memorable protagonists without having this 2017 list in front of me, I would have named Kitty Katt-Martini, Tess Kendrick, and Rydan Corvis without even blinking – three of the characters on the original list.
Today I’d add two young women – Elizabeth Vrabel from the Kitty Katt-Martini series and Joey Morales from the Orphan X series – to the protector category. Both of these young women star in short stories from their authors, and I love the roles they play in the full-length books that focus on other characters. Their smarts and their sass put them both into my list of favorites. I’d also add Ada VonHasenberg from Polaris Rising in the protector category. I don’t know that I have new brooding men or funny characters that immediately come to mind to add to my original list. And Meg Langslow is still the character most like me in the books I read.
You can read the full original post here: Saturday Smorgasbord: Memorable Protagonists.