I don't have a least favorite character yet. I was worried that Jo would be annoying but I actually find her funny. Achmed grew on me because he is obviously the smartest and best strategist, also, when it seems like he's being mean most of the time it just means he's being extra cautious. The only character I am annoyed with is Gwydion/Sam. He's set up as this big love interest, he lies about his name and origins, and then disappears for a million pages. But it doesn't work out too well for him either.
Oh, yes, Gwydion/Sam is also an irritating character.
What's your opinion on Rhapsody? Find her to be a Mary Sue as so many claim?
Who would you rather score with, Rhapsody or Jo (age issues aside)?
As far as the villains are concerned, I think the F'dor are quite memorably. Formless demons that can possess anyone and live forever and want to burn the world? Brrrrrr.
I don't think you have to be a unique dude to be a memorable villain exactly. Sometimes you just have to be creepy. The F'dor are creepy. Real creepy.
They remind me of the Yeerks in Animorphs I read when I was a teenager. The Yeerks were creepy for the same reason; they could be anywhere and anybody.
But they have no personality. It's been a couple years, but not once do I remember a F'dor giving a big speech like, "BEHOLD, YE WORLD SHALT END IN FLAAAAMESSSS!!!!" or something similarly hammy, which to me is a must for wannabe-world-destroying demons.
So I finally finished the first novel finally and began the second novel. Turns out that Ashe/Gwydion/Sam are the all same person. So now I have to decide weather I want to ship him and Rhapsody. But so far I am still kind of annoyed at Gwydion because he lied about his name when he went to the past, and the whole name changing thing (including Emily changing her name to Rhapsody) would have made it a whole lot less likely for them to end up together. He was sent there to do one thing, (meet up with Emily/Rhapsody in past so he could marry her in the present,) and he screwed that up. Then he went and got his heart cut out by some demon (I don't know this for sure yet but there have been a few heavy handed hints to this already). It doesn't to me like he's good enough for Rhapsody. Also, I think that Grunthor would make a better pairing with Rhapsody anyway. They get along better then her and either Ashe or Achmed. She says that Grunthor "is out of the question" in a recent chapter but I don't really think this jells with her character. She has been shown to disregard appearance in the interest of getting to know that person's inside multiple times. What makes Grunthor so different? Maybe it's because Grunthor is... (admittedly,) not the sharpest knife in the drawer. That, to me, actually is a good reason to not date or marry someone, but it's still kind of sad. Maybe the
author just thought it would be icky.
And I still think the F'dor are really creepy villains. Yes, they are seriously deficient on the Snidely Whiplash style of hammy evil quotient, but I think the paranoia they inspire makes up for it. They are kind of like pod people. Except more "world-burny".
Some of my favorite villains are actually anonymous. Sauron never had hammy dialog. In fact He never even showed up. But He was still creepy. The Dementors from Harry Potter don't even have a head under their cowl but they scared the bageesus out of me until Harry started being able to jiz out Patronis charms.