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I wrote Humans Don’t Have Horns with six POVs. Different POVs allow the reader to experience the story from various angles, offering a richer, more layered understanding of events, relationships, and settings. Also, Alternating POVs lets authors control pacing, create suspense, and strategically place cliffhangers.
I’ve shared before how I used designed chapter headers to help readers navigate between these POVs.
Sarah J. Maas uses multiple POVs in all her books. Yet in Humans Don’t Have Horns, unlike Mass’s books, the story is told in present-tense first person. One of the books that influenced my writing choice is An Ember in the Ashes.
The six POVs in Humans Don’t Have Horns are:
(If you haven’t read the book yet, this part includes spoilers)
🕊️ Lian
An Aldonian princess and the FMC. Lian transforms from a political pawn and kidnapping victim into a woman with agency, who questions everything she was taught about the PureSouls and the Cursed Ones.
💀 Daton
Our MMC. The Butcher, a Cursed One warlord. He kills with terrifying ease, but his core is devotion to his people, to honor, and, despite himself, to Lian.
🏹 The Hunter
He hunts Cursed Ones for their horns. A Renyan father propelled by desperate love for his sick daughter.
🌙Siean
Lian’s older sister. Unlike Lian, Siean’s appearance is Renyan, like their mother’s. She lives in hiding in Renya, while Lian believes her to be dead.
☀️ Dahav
A Kozari princess, a devoted worshiper of the Sun, who takes over the Kozari throne.
🩸 Niska
Daton’s lethal second. Her colors are unlike the Mongans but red like the Aldonians’, an ever-present reminder of her unwanted conception.
What POVs to expect in A Crown of Blood and Magic?
This is the second monthly post about the second book in my Trilogy of A Crown and Blood and Magic. As I explained here: The full post is available to paid subscribers and street team members. As promised, there will be no word count, but there will be spoilers.
