Jeannine
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Cari Hunter:
I enjoy that your writing is smart and like your sense of humor. What I think would make your work even better is more development of the other characters on the teams. San's partner on the force, the other doctors and nurses at the hospital. Do you think the area where the the book takes place is similar to someplace in the states? Keep up the good work, Jeannine
Cari Hunter
Hiya Jeannine. Cheers for reading!
I appreciate your comment about developing other team members in the Dark Peak, but that's difficult to manage in a series that's essentially a two-header. Meg and San are the only characters with a point of view, so any development has to come from their scenes. The more POVs you start to include, the more diluted the development of your leads so I do tend to keep the focus on them. As the series progresses, I think there is more insight and a little more background given to some of the incidental characters, but the books remain very much focused on Sanne and Meg and their relationship. Eleanor does get a POV in A Quiet Death, which means she can have her own scenes where Meg and San don't appear, and she was a very interesting character to bring some background to.
As for the Dark Peak area being similar to someplace in the USA, I'm afraid, as a Brit, that I'm not the best person to answer that question! I'm not sure whether there are wide expanses of boggy peat covered, grit stone hills over there. I don't think I've ever had anyone mention them to me, but that doesn't rule their existence out entirely.
I appreciate your comment about developing other team members in the Dark Peak, but that's difficult to manage in a series that's essentially a two-header. Meg and San are the only characters with a point of view, so any development has to come from their scenes. The more POVs you start to include, the more diluted the development of your leads so I do tend to keep the focus on them. As the series progresses, I think there is more insight and a little more background given to some of the incidental characters, but the books remain very much focused on Sanne and Meg and their relationship. Eleanor does get a POV in A Quiet Death, which means she can have her own scenes where Meg and San don't appear, and she was a very interesting character to bring some background to.
As for the Dark Peak area being similar to someplace in the USA, I'm afraid, as a Brit, that I'm not the best person to answer that question! I'm not sure whether there are wide expanses of boggy peat covered, grit stone hills over there. I don't think I've ever had anyone mention them to me, but that doesn't rule their existence out entirely.
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