I'm doing something a little different in this book. At least different from the other Paladin League books. I'm adding a few scenes from one of the villain's Points of View (POV). I've done this at least once before in one of my paranormal romances, but it's something I don't do often.
After talking it over with one of my writing buddies, I decided to add this POV in this book because it's pretty much impossible for the plot to make sense without it.
The thing that's spinning my brain right now is that his POV is biased. He thinks he's the brains behind the organization, that his boss would be nowhere without him. And while he has made a large number of contributions, he's selling the man he reports to very short. Far too short. So if a reader takes his thoughts as accurate, they're misled.
This is one of the big drawbacks with staying true to POV. It's happened in other books where I was dinged in reviews for characters who had a less than accurate view of a situation.
The one that comes immediately to mind is when Ryne tells Deke she never was abused. (In the Midnight Hour) She clearly was. I know she was, the reader who wrote the review knew she was, but Ryne doesn't see it that way. If she had told Deke what had happened, he would have pointed out she was wrong, she had been abused, but she never shares what occurred during the book. I like to think she told him later, but I wasn't given a view of that, so I don't know if she did or not.
There were other books where staying true to POV and not drifting into an omniscient view of the story also left an incorrect impression. The thing is the characters believe what they're thinking and/or saying. It's not as if I can jump in and in parentheses say: "Warning, character is wrong. She was abused and maybe some day she'll realize it."
So when I'm in Silva's head and he thinks his boss, Senor Torres would not be an international arms dealer without him, he's not correct. It might have taken longer, but it would have happened.
Ultimately, though, there's no choice except stay true to the character and what they believe. So wrong impression of Jorge Torres coming up. :-)
