Comments on: Hooking the Reader: The Character Investment http://kayedacus.com/2008/03/20/hooking-the-reader-the-character-investment/ Sat, 26 May 2012 21:44:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Amy Jane (Untangling Tales) http://kayedacus.com/2008/03/20/hooking-the-reader-the-character-investment/#comment-8986 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:04:25 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=633#comment-8986 That is a very good question, but I’ll have to think of it 16 times, because I don’t particularly have a favorite character at any given time.

What I think I’ll do instead is compare a number of them and look for a trend. Off the top of my head the best I can think is that the POV is always very close to the character I like.

I don’t admire them from afar: it’s either 1st person or close 3rd.

]]> By: Sally Bradley http://kayedacus.com/2008/03/20/hooking-the-reader-the-character-investment/#comment-8973 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:07:43 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=633#comment-8973 One of my favorite books is Bodie Thoene’s Vienna Prelude. Murphy and Elisa, the two main characters, are so easy to root for yet they’re not perfect. I read that book back in high school, and I still reread it and think of the characters often.

]]> By: Erica Vetsch http://kayedacus.com/2008/03/20/hooking-the-reader-the-character-investment/#comment-8972 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:01:09 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=633#comment-8972 One of my favorite characters is Amelia Peabody, a Victorian Egyptologist created by Elizabeth Peters. I love her because the stories are told from Amelia’s POV, and she is a delightful character who sees the world through Amelia-tinted glasses. She is funny, astringent at times, and not one to suffer fools gladly.

Elizabeth employs the tone of a Victorian Memoir, using terms like Gentle Reader and The Reader will Note…I love it because in today’s world that form is rarely used, and Elizabeth combines it with a fast paced plot and twisty mysteries that I NEVER figure out but love nonetheless.

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