How to Keep You Rooting for John Cleaver

The core of the John Cleaver books is let's put you in his head and then see how far we can find him. So some of the tricks to keep you rooting for him, to keep John as sympathetic as possible, he's funny. I did a, um, an entire book where I masked two villains who were talking about horrible, horrible things as jokesters joking about these things. They didn't catch that they were villains despite every action they were doing was villainous. If they had said those lines straight, everyone would have hated them from page one. And they didn't.