One essential element of any good story is real
and believable characters.
Heroes, real heroes, are just like you. Human.
Good points and bad points, with daily struggles
and temptations. Bad choices, wrong decisions,
rotten luck. But something about them, perhaps
because they are human, allows you to identify
with them. To root for them. To hope the good in
them will eventually prevail over the bad.
And the villains are just as human. They have the
same choices. They same luck. They same
opportunities. Only the bad in them slowly
overtakes the good. You can maybe identify with
them, but only because you see them consistently
making choices that the good guy, like you, has to
make on a daily basis. But they make the wrong
choices, the wrong decisions, going down a path
where once they pass a certain point, there is no
coming back.
This opposition of characters is just one of the
reasons why people are discovering that Zapotec
is such a breathtakingly compelling read, filled
with compelling struggles of good versus evil.
Up until the very end you'll find yourself hanging
on every word to find out who wins.