I like your idea. Done properly, it makes a book easier to read.
Done improperly well you won't have readers for long.
Good example:J D Robb or James Patterson.
Bad example: the author who's name I have long since forgotten. Though I will tell you about the book.
He had 3 main characters. After the disaster two wound up being street people several hundred miles from the ruling house while the third was enslaved in the ruling house. He keeps going back and forth between the 3 characters until you get about 3/4 through the book. Then you get the two street people fall or jump into a hole, or some other such thing and the third one is pregnant. Next sentence is 9 months later the baby is born and the street people are now arriving at the house.
It left me wanting way more information.
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