Talk:The Sacrifice/@comment-122.174.60.39-20120407044418/@comment-90.197.93.96-20120429185849

Charlie Higson is not a pessimist. No writer enjoys killing off a character, because there are points later in the book where they think, "Oh, they could've been good here," etc. Sometimes a writer kills off a character that they had no idea they were going to, which is actually what Charlie said in an interview. Also, the killing off of characters helps to develop another character - for instance, when Arran was killed, (The Enemy) we began to symphasize a lot more with Maxie, and all the pressure she was under, and this also helped Blue to tell Maxie how he felt.