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OK, my stories are mostly speculative fiction where multiple povs are common. However, I've limited most of the story to 1 POV, the mmc. My secondary POV character is a henchman for the bad guys, and I have a couple other characters that get a small amount of POV time.
So, for the characters that only get a few POV scenes they have to meet 1 important criteria: before I'll introduce a new POV it has to be something I want or need the reader to see and it has to be happening at a time and place where the main POV characters can't see it, and the mmc can't discover the information on his own for a large chunk of the book.
So with that in mind, as readers does it bother you if a new POV character is introduced late in a book and are you annoyed if you only get 1 or 2 scenes with a character?
So, for the characters that only get a few POV scenes they have to meet 1 important criteria: before I'll introduce a new POV it has to be something I want or need the reader to see and it has to be happening at a time and place where the main POV characters can't see it, and the mmc can't discover the information on his own for a large chunk of the book.
So with that in mind, as readers does it bother you if a new POV character is introduced late in a book and are you annoyed if you only get 1 or 2 scenes with a character?