When you read a book, do you think that some characters are not needed to better the story? The book I read, "Deep Blue", by Jennifer Donnelly, is about a princess of the Mer region of Miromara. During her coronation of sorts her mother and father are struck down be an assassin in a black uniform. The city is captured by the Mer men in black uniforms, and Serafina and her cousin, Neela are forced to flee the city. The rest of the book is about Serafina's struggle to find the the assassin that killed her parents.

I think an unneeded character is Yazeed. He appears in chapter eight and then doesn't come back for the rest of the book. When Yazeed and Neela's brother Mahdi are found, they are asleep under a bridge dressed like they where at