Does anyone else find the names of Cherie Priest's characters as interesting as I do?
Jeremiah Swakhammer, Mercy Lynch, Briar Blue, Lucy O'Gunning, Captain Croggard Beuregaurd Hainey (personally my favorite), and Horatio Korman just to name a few.
Every times she uses an interesting name like that, I'm always trying to match their personality to their name and it works out pretty well. I also think it's fun that the name of each book is a piece of machinery, be it a dirigible, train, or a piece of equipment that destroys a whole city.
The large names makes me kind of tend to forget them. I usually can't remember Captain Hainey's full name.
ReplyDeleteI like how each book is named after a machine, but the character names really only work because this is a steampunk adventure series. I would have a hard time taking a book seriously with character names like this, but fortunately these books don't take themselves too seriously.
ReplyDeleteI agree the long names are harder to remember, but I love her choices. Her book titles also are really cool to me, since I enjoy steampunk.
ReplyDeleteI also really like the names. And I've pretty much decided that if I ever have a daughter, her name will be Briar. But I don't think these names would be that out of the ordinary in a book that wasn't steampunk, as long as it was still in this time period. Jeremiah, Beauregard (Hainey's middle name), Leviticus (Levi, for short)...these are all names that I think of when I think of the 1800s. I just googled some popular names from the 19th century, and most of them were things such as Abraham, Nathaniel, Jebediah... there's even some weirder ones!
ReplyDeleteI do like the names as well. I think my favorite is probably Briar and Swakhammer. Although the first time I read Boneshaker I accidentally read her name as Blair! Mercy Lynch did not seem so unusual because I know a family with that last name and Mercy, although uncommon, is still a name heard from time to time. Finally I had not thought of the fact that each title machine had destroyed a city! It chuckle a little at Priest's choices for book titles.
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