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Advice please...
Following a plot twist I no longer have a suitable candidate for an antagonist. I want to bring on a new one, quite late on in the story. In fact, my protagonists have been up against the bad things a corporation is doing, so they have been fighting 'the company' but now I want to give the corporate enemy his own voice by bringing forward one of the employees.
It means I'll have five POVs. Is that okay? Up till now I've just had the four.
Comments
Another character late on, especially as he has effectively been there but hidden, sounds Ok, but another POV popping up late sounds a little odd to me - makes you wonder why he wasn't included before.
Or could you drop short chapters of his POV in earlier, but as an unnamed shadowy figure?
Actually yes, I could do a bit of that too. It would make the whole thing more consistent.
And actually I think that one chapter will be enough. He has another clash with the dev. team later on and that is already told from the protagonist's POV, in quite some detail, so the reader has the continuity there, and when the antagonist reappears in part four of the book, the reader is quite familiar with him.
Thanks guys.