Nico made this note while listening to Karin Slaughter’s NPR interview.People in story should matter to readers.

Choice B says that readers need to care about the characters. If readers care about the people in a story, those people matter to them, which directly supports Nico’s note. The other choices refer to thrillers or specific books rather than the importance of making readers care about characters.

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