Sidekick Showcase [31] Love Interest's BFF

Sidekick Showcase, previously known as 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! I will post my Sidekicks on Saturday, then whichever day during the week that you would like to post yours, you can put your link in on my page. 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 fit's in the week's topic

• Share a picture (if you can) 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
• The day of your post, put your link in below and grab the code for your post so you can see the others that post their's throughout the week as well

Love Interest's BFF

I love this week's challenge. My mom and sister were totally stumped, but I kept throwing books at them. I offered Soul Walker as the first example, Peter's best friend Jared did not let friendship get in the way when it came to flirting with Anna. Shane's best friend, beautiful Michael from the Morganville series made me swoon from the very start. My sister voted for Michael. Of course she did.

“Seriously,” Shane said, “this kind of is the worst situation we’ve ever been in, right?”
“Speak for yourself,” Michael said. “I got myself killed last year. Twice.”
“Oh yeah. You’re right—last year really sucked for you.”
― Rachel Caine, Kiss of Death

I couldn't stop offering suggestions. Adam's best friend Warren from the Mercy Thompson series. I love best friends! But then I thought of Noah's best friend in Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry. Isaiah is a tatted up mess. In the first book, he plays the background and sounding board for Noah. He's a car dude with a dead end crush on a girl who's plain scary. In book 2, he shows off his protective gene as well as his bad temper. I love Isaiah and we get his story in book 3, Crash Into You. The cover has him as this hot white guy with arm tats. I saw him as brown, bald, more ink than skin, and kind of mean looking. He has a hard past and a precarious future. I know I'll love it, but I wish the guy on the cover wasn't so ready made cute. 

“With one touch, Isaiah could ground me. Keep me from floating away with his arms as my anchor. His steady beating heart the reminder he would never let go.”
― Katie McGarry, Dare You To

After listening to all my suggestions my mom decided to stick with A Time to Kill. "Since I'm with Jake Brigance (remember she ran away with him on last week's sidekick challenge), I choose Jake's best friend, Harry Rex Vonner (played by Oliver Platt)." Yep.

I hope you're all having a great weekend. I won't be able to return any comments or check out your posts until Monday.