March 6: Favorite SFF Creatures *Booktube SFF Awards Crossover Topic*
-- Discuss your favorite creatures from Science Fiction and Fantasy books! This is a crossover topic with the Booktube SFF Awards Book Babble discussion for this week.I love Science Fiction and Fantasy, they are the bulk of what I read. I didn't pick anything from Harry Potter or Percy Jackson because those characters are awesome and way too easy.
- The familiars from The All Souls Series by Deborah Harkness
- Diana has a Firedrake named Corra who if I remember correctly we meet in The Book of Life and in Time's Convert her son discovers his own familiar, a Griffin who he names Apollo.
- The Lamina from Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- These things were creepy. They produced psychotropic slime that was used to make drugs but as they got bigger they became brain sucking killers. I believe there were some pictures in the ebook of what they looked like at various stages. I listened to the audiobook but they were so disturbing.
- Xemerius from The Precious Stone Trilogy by Kerstin Gier
- While this series was not great, Xemerius was the best! He was the ghost of a demon that main character Gwen finds in a church on her adventures through time. He latches onto her and provides much needed comic relief throughout the series. While she is the only one who can see and hear him, and he can't actually do anything in the real world, he can find things for her and keep an eye on things for Gwen. He says some of the most hilarious things, which is one of the reasons why I kept reading the series.
- The many Local Spirits from The Bear and the Nightingale
- I love mythology and there were many house spirits and local spirits that helped with the horses and lived in the water and other local places in the Russian landscape. Main character Vasya is on of the few who can see them and talk with them, but as Christianity becomes popular, the people stop providing tithes to the local spirits. Vasya continues to provide offerings to the spirits in exchange for their protection as well as accepting Christian teachings. I loved how each spirit was described and they each had a job or purpose.
- Pinfeathers and the other dreamworld characters from The Nevermore Series by Kelly Creagh
- This was a dark YA series inspired by the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, so you can see where that is headed. The characters in the dreamworld were dark and creepy, and a manifestation of the dreamers thoughts. I was appropriately disturbed by the dreamworld characters, but Pinfeathers was my favorite. He's a little goth like Edward Scissorhands, but with claw hands and weird red hair, and I envision him being made of like porcelain with cracks all over and he's just empty in side where the pieces are missing.
