Best Character Development

Character development for me should just flow really well.

For me over the course of a book wether it be a stand alone book or part of a series every character should have a little development. The more important the characters are within the book the more they should be developed. That’s the way that I personally see it.

- Poppy
    - The Ice Cream Girls
Poppy’s development comes in so many different stages, because the author has four stages of life for Poppy. There is before when she is a young teen, who is in an relationship with a teacher, to a 17 year old who is sent to prison, to one who is released and is trying to find the truth about what happened and the last when she finds out the truth.

You see in the book when she goes back and talks about her life before hand that something in her changes when Marcus hits Serena, and you see her develop in to someone who still loves him, but starts to hate him more and more as well. By the end of the book you see her relationships with people change. You see her personality changes, her ambitions, because even though she’s been free of Marcus for 17 years in person, in reality he’s still a part of her life in her mind.

Most authors whose work is mainly stand alone books like Dorothy Koomson, I don’t tend to want to know what happens to those characters, where as with Dorothy Koomson I have two books in particular I would love for her to delve more into and The Ice Cream Girls is one of them

- Andy
    - The Devil Wears Prada
I love Andy’s development throughout the book. Though it’s obvious that she’ll go through all the stages she does go through, I think it makes her a stronger person. She needed to change herself into one of the people she works with and at the beginning of the book despises, in order for her to grow as a person.


- Ruby
    - Lock and Key
I liked Ruby a lot through out the book. At 17, she has her head screwed on, and is a strong independent teenager, who lived with her mom, but when she moved in with her sister you could tell she just wanted her independence back. Though she was strong and independent before moving in with her sister, her development during the book taught Ruby that she can be all of the things she wants to be, while having the love and support of her sister, brother in law and the cute boy