Books
Skulduggery Pleasant
The story follows the character Skulduggery Pleasant, an undead sorcerer and detective, with his partner Stephanie Edgley who goes by the name Valkyrie Cain, and numerous magic-wielding allies as they try to prevent the bad guys from doing generally bad stuff.
Harry Potter
Obviously, I Love Harry Potter, and, evidently, my favourite character is Luna Lovegood, followed by Lupin and Tonks.
Cuckoo Song
After almost drowning in a millpond known as "The Grimmer", 11-year-old Triss Crescent wakes up in bed surrounded by the familiar faces of her nearest and dearest; only, they're not quite as familiar as they should be, and the house she has lived in her whole life only vaguely feels like home. Triss tries to dismiss this as nothing more than a disorienting loss of memory following her accident, but things soon become too weird for such a simple explanation: dolls come to life in her hands, a rasping voice inside her head counts down the days she has left to live, and a voracious hunger drives her to demolish an entire windfall of rotten apples. Forced to accept that something odd happened at the mysterious Grimmer, "black as perdition and narrow as a half-closed eye", Triss starts to investigate, while trying to convince her parents that she is still their perfect daughter. If she lets the mask slip, they might send her away for being "the wrong kind of ill". Triss's younger sister, a rather irritating, abrasive character called Pen, holds all the answers. She was there when her sibling emerged from The Grimmer, but is "sibling" the right term for the girl who climbed out of the water to take Triss's place in the Crescent family's home? Pen doesn't seem to think so, and delights in telling Triss that she is "getting everything just a bit wrong. Everything. All the time. And sooner or later they'll notice." Triss has no idea what she is talking about. She believes wholeheartedly that she is the real Triss, so it comes as a shock to both her and the reader to discover that she is an imposter. Who is the imposter, and why did The Architect, an evil "bricks-and-mortar magician", switch the two girls? What is he up to in the city, and why do letters keep arriving from Sebastian, the Crescents' dead son? The mystery is complex and skilfully handled, with every plot strand delicately interwoven into an impressive spider-web whole.