Thank you! You make an excellent point – it takes time to evolve a character. If you want to leave the reader with a sense that they’ve fallen in love with that character, that they’re going to miss them, or perhaps look forward to meeting them again in another novel, you need to craft a portrait, not scribble a stick-person. There is a time and a place for every kind of book, but I too enjoy those books which slow the pace in the interests of spending a little time with the main characters.