Maybe it's already been said, but I hate when books have a lot of characters with very similar names -- I'm constantly struggling to remember who is who, possibly because I have a tenancy to skim over long and uncommon names and read them as Mr. Sag-----, so if another Mr. Sag--*--- shows up I'm in trouble.
A similar problem is when they switch back and forth between referring to the character by first or last name... if I missed the connection the first time it takes me a long time to realize that they're the same person, and then I often miss a lot of important details.
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