While there are many characters to choose from, the best new characters introduced in each book are the ones who are most entertaining, well-developed, and influential to the overarching series.

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She prefers a literary-sounding option to a popular one — for instance ... Does Jewell ever forget the names of characters from earlier books? “Subsidiary ones, yes,” she admitted.