I've been writing my trilogy of books for some time now. Without going into details, a few side characterless have been killed off throughout but now I'm writing the climax of the series. In the scene, every major and minor character has been pulled into a city wide battle. Out of the remaining 24 characters, only 5 will survive the next chapter.
This chapter (named Reaping for obvious reasons) goes through the battle as the characters are killed off one by one or in small groups. However I feel like killing 19 characters might be a bit much for some readers.
Should I stick with the mass killing of my characters or have them die off gradually? This battle does last for half of book 3 so there is plenty of room.
19 Characters to kill
Major - 7
Side/Minor - 12
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