Bought from Amazon.ca:
My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century (My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century #1)
by Rachel Harris
On the precipice of her sixteenth birthday, the last thing lone wolf Cat Crawford wants is an extravagant gala thrown by her bubbly stepmother and well-meaning father. So even though Cat knows the family’s trip to Florence, Italy, is a peace offering, she embraces the magical city and all it offers. But when her curiosity leads her to an unusual gypsy tent, she exits... right into Renaissance Firenze.
Thrust into the sixteenth century armed with only a backpack full of contraband future items, Cat joins up with her ancestors, the sweet Alessandra and protective Cipriano, and soon falls for the gorgeous aspiring artist Lorenzo. But when the much-older Niccolo starts sniffing around, Cat realizes that an unwanted birthday party is nothing compared to an unwanted suitor full of creeptastic amore. Can she find her way back to modern times before her Italian adventure turns into an Italian forever?
A Tale of Two Centuries (My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century #2)
by Rachel Harris
Alessandra D’Angeli is in need of an adventure. Tired of her sixteenth-century life in Italy and homesick for her time-traveling cousin, Cat, who visited her for a magical week and dazzled her with tales of the future, Alessandra is lost. Until the stars hear her plea.
One mystical spell later, Alessandra appears on Cat’s Beverly Hills doorstep five hundred years in the future. Surrounded by confusing gadgets, scary transportation, and scandalous clothing, Less is hesitant to live the life of a twenty-first century teen…until she meets the infuriating—and infuriatingly handsome—surfer Austin Michaels. Austin challenges everything she believes in…and introduces her to a world filled with possibility.
With the clock ticking, Less knows she must live every moment of her modern life while she still can. But how will she return to the drab life of her past when the future is what holds everything she’s come to love?
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Blue from the Alex Wayfare series by M. G. Buehrlen - I'm not holding out much hope for this particular story, as I have a feeling it would be so spoilery that it would ruin the rest of the series. If we ever do get to read about events from his point of view, it will probably be after the main series is completed.
Decker from Megan Miranda's Fracture series - Yeah, yeah... I know he's the protagonist of the prequel novella and
the sequel. But I'm really afraid to read the latter because I'm
afraid that the author will mess him up like she did with Delaney in the
first book... and I'd rather remember him as the only decent character
in Fracture.
Derek from The Darkest Powers
trilogy
by Kelley Armstrong - I kind of liked Derek, even in the first book.
By the time I'd finished the trilogy, I was wishing it had been written
about him instead of about Chloe. There were some interesting hints
that were dropped about him in the third book, but they never went
anywhere. He's got some special powers of his own, so it's not like he doesn't have an
interesting story that could be turned into a book (or three).
Erris from Magic Under Glass and Magic Under Stone
by Jaclyn Dolamore - He's kind of a tragic character. And yet, the tragedy was underutilized. I wanted to know more about how he ended up in his predicament, and being inside his head instead of Nimira's would have helped the reader sympathize with him a bit more. He was a far more interesting character than Nimira, and having a fairy prince as the narrator might have brought more magic into the story; for a land supposedly swimming in sorcerers, there was surprisingly little magic in the plot.
Gale from The Hunger Games trilogy
by Suzanne Collins - I was always on Team Gale, and I really did not
like his weird choices in the third book. Had the story been written
from his point of view, perhaps his actions would have made more sense.
Either that, or the author would have realized that his actions weren't
all that consistent with his character.
Hazael
from the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy by Laini
Taylor - Forget Akiva. If we're talking seraphim, then Haz was
definitely my favourite. I'm not sure exactly what could be written
about him that wasn't already covered in the series. Maybe we could
find out what happened before his brother went off and caused so much chaos.
Po from Graceling
by Kristin Cashore - I know Katsa is considered by many to be a
kick-ass heroine, but I wasn't that crazy about her. Of all the
characters in that book, I found Po to be the most interesting. I would
have liked to read some of that story from his point of view.
Raffe
from the Penryn & the End of Days series by Susan
Ee - We did get a little bit of Raffe's POV in World After, but I would like
to read more about his life. He's been around for thousands of
years, after all; it's not like there would be any shortage of things to
write about!
Ty from Stolen
by Lucy Christopher - Yes, he was the villain, and yes, he was screwed up. We got some tantalizing hints as to how he got so messed up, but since the book was told from Gemma's point of view, we never really got a chance to get inside Ty's head. He was so complex and interesting that he could easily support a story all on his own.
Ziri from Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke & Bone
trilogy - I know I'm not the only one out there who feels this way, and
I have a feeling he'll make a lot of people's lists today. He's an
interesting character, and there would be plenty of material to work
with if the author ever decided to continue to write stories in the
world she created.