Top Ten Tuesday: Favourite Secondary/Minor Characters

This week’s theme from Top Ten Tuesday is all about secondary/minor characters, and I love it — secondary and minor characters can add so much to a world, help to flesh out the major characters, and bring in interesting themes and ideas that the main character alone can’t support. Sooo let’s dig into some favourites. Csevet Aisava, from The Goblin Emperor (Katherine Addison). He appears early in the story and from that point on, he’s constantly in support of Maia, helping him find his feet in the court and enacting his will in the most efficient way possible. We don’t see a lot of his inner life, but we see enough tantalising glimpses to know that he has one, and his competence and loyalty are very enticing. I’d love to know more about Csevet. Tom Wilker, from The Memoirs of Lady Trent (Marie Brennan). Wilker’s start in A Natural History of Dragons isn’t a terribly promising one: he comes across as trying to gatekeep Isabella’s part in her husband’s expedition, and disrespectful of…