My book club is reading THE RECKLESS OATH WE MADE and we have a question for our discussion and we would love to hear from you: How do you write characters that are so flawed (or unlikable), yet you still wish things turn out well for them? Throughout THE RECKLESS OATH WE MADE we found ourselves frustrated with the characters yet still empathizing with them. Thank you!!

Bryn Greenwood All of the characters I write feel like real people to me, so I write them with as much compassion as I would hope be able to give real people. That means that unless a character is a truly terrible person, I'm always trying to redeem them. I think my desire to redeem people comes through in my writing and reveals the humanity, even of characters you might not like as people. Once you acknowledge someone's humanity, it's hard not to want things to turn out for them.

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