Booker-winning novelist Ali Smith believes you don’t have to worry about the reader in the end:

All a writer can do is work with language to get the story right.  Full stop.  & I’ve always believed that what readers feel is readers’ own business…

This is liberating. But it is also a challenge; a gauntlet thrown. Because it means that there is nothing else for the writer to worry about.

Nobody else can or will write the book that you can write…

It’s up to you.