Dynamic Duos! BEST OF 2010-Heidi Style

Best Of lists are popping up everywhere. SEA is on a bunch of them. This makes me happy! I want to write my own list, but I don't want to JUST books, I want to include the best part about a hero, their partner in crime. Their love interest, their sidekick. Because sometimes, the best part of an individual is the thing that makes them one half of a fabulous duo.

Buckle up, buttercup. You're going to want to pay attention to these DYNAMIC DUOS!

1. BEST LITERARY SIDEKICK AND HER TRUSTY HEROINE: What would Evie be without tasey, her pink taser, from PARANORMALCY? Dead that's where. Kiersten, Tasey's inventor and a delight herself, was named a "Flying Start" by Publisher's Weekly this morning. Yay for Kiersten, Evie and the whole gang in this fun, original book.
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2. BEST SCREEN BROMANCE: Sherlock Holmes and Watson from SHERLOCK HOLMES.
The movie is rollicking fun, but no couple has more chemistry than the charmingly co-dependent Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr.


3. BEST BROADWAY COUPLE:
The dynamic cast and their guitars. American Idiot! (Saw it twice. In one day. There are witnesses.)

We talked to the cast afterwards and many learned guitar just to play, "Time of Our Lives" for the oncore. Chills.

4. BEST SMALL SCREEN HALF UNDEAD NOT QUITE A COUPLE BUT WE'RE HOPING:
Sizzling dynamic between Damon & Elena. Or Damon and Katherine. Or Damon and ANYONE for that matter.


5. BEST SEXUAL TENSION En français

St. Clair and Anna in Stephanie Perkins sparkly debut ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS. If you like SEA, you will adore this charming book. If you don't, I owe you an eclair. ;)


6. BEST REAL LIFE BOY SHOULD BE A FICTIONAL CHARACTER: The infamous Afghan Boy. AKA: The Bookcellar X's best boy friend and the afghan dog he shows. Seriously.
The Twitter tales never end, and the antics have made many an evening's delight on Twitter. Thanks, #AfghanBoy, you are a stranger to us. But you never fail to fascinate with your dog showing prowess and bizarre personal decisions in dating and in life.

7. BESTFRIENDMANCE: Harry Potter and Hermoine in HP7. Rarely does a movie capture those strange feelings of starting to feel something more than friendship with your Just Friend as well as the first installment of HP7 did. The bleakness and dread of this brilliant film's breath of relief was the budding tension between these long-time friends and the jealousy that ripples through Ron. I suppose the duo could also be the amulet and any of the main characters, but since that pretty much ripped off The Precious, I'll go ahead and give credit to the Friendmance between the two heroes. In a movie full of make believe, this moment was so very real. And took our breath away.


8. BEST PARTNERS/FRIENDS/LOVERS AGAINST ALL ODDS: Mockingjay's long-suffering, ever-scarred, most-beloved Katniss and Peeta.

Suzanne Collins anti-war trilogy was a phenom of 2010, with good reason. It horrified us with its ugly truth of the realities of war and a reminded us that a society who forgets the most important thing about it: its people, will cease to survive. Their bittersweet tragedy of what was left of the Peeta/Katniss romance left me a sobbing bowl of mush and landed me in the E.R. What other duo did THAT?

"Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games"
-Peeta Mellark

"Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true. Here is the place where I love you."
-Katniss Everdeen

Thank you, 2010, for being the year my dream came true.

Thank YOU, readers & friends, for supporting my little blue book by spreading the word. For getting the story I tried to write, for loving these characters like I do.

This one is for you.

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HAPPY HOLIDAZE!