Sidekick Saturday [16] - Mysterious

Sidekick Saturday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted here by Jaclyn at JC's Book Haven. There are many secondary characters that are as great as the primaries. In some cases, the sidekicks actually steal the show and you like them better than the heroine or hero. Maybe they didn't have enough page time for how great they were. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Choose a sidekick *or someone other than the hero or heroine* that you would like to put in the spotlight that fits in this week's type
• Share a picture and information about the character
• Give the title and author of a book the character can be found in
• Please don't include too many spoilers when describing why the character is such a great sidekick
• Put your link in the Linky thing and comment

This week is Mysterious

My choice is Jericho Barrons from The Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning

Mac meets Barrons of Barrons Books and Baubles when she stumbles into the bookstore while looking for a safe haven.

According to Mac: "He studied me with his predator's gaze, assessing me from head to toe. I studied him back. He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him. About thirty, six foot two or three, he had dark hair, golden skin, and dark eyes. His features were strong, chiseled...He wasn't handsome. That was too calm a word. He was intensely masculine. He attracted. There was an omnipresent carnality about him, in his dark eyes, in his full mouth, in the way he stood. He was the kind of man I wouldn't flirt with in a million years."

Barrons just gets more enticing from there as they spend time together. Hot one minute and cold most of the time. He is extremely mysterious...always seeming to be lying to her or withholding information. Frankly, he drives Mac crazy. His enigmatic nature was something that I loved a lot while reading The Fever Series.

Quotes:

“I was about to look away when he reached across the seat, touched my jaw with his long, strong, beautiful fingers, and caressed my face. Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you must be the most special person in the world. It’s like walking up to the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and purrs.”

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“Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bull in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.”

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“Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.”

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“I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator

and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons.”

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“Punch me."

"Don't be absurd."

"Come on, punch me, Barrons."

"I'm not punching you."

"I said, punch--OW!"

He decked me.”

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“I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.”

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