Defending Slightly Different Names

I heard a complaint in a review that character names were just like real ones only changed slightly. However, I disagree. Slight changes from real historical names are actually realistic. Look at all the variants of John, Juan, Jan, Jean, Johann, etc…, which goes back to the Hebrew/Greek Biblical roots of it. So far from being bad, I think it’s a good way to make the characters distinct and at the same time relatable/understandable.

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