Do you enjoy books that shift narrative modes?
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Re: Do you enjoy books that shift narrative modes?
Overall, if a book should have multiple narratives, I believe two to three voices should be the limit.
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I recently read a book from here called "Blind Evil" by Eric Praschan that did this, and I wasn't such a fan. An ex-best friend turned killer, going after the two main characters, a husband and wife, and every time it went into the wife's perspective I just got bored. I didn't feel she added anything to it, and there were times where things were just restated from her perspective.
A third book I can think of that does this is "The Warded Man" by Peter V. Brett. This first book in the series was amazing, and it had followed three different people. Now we're onto the third book, and we haven't really gone very far from the end of the first book, because each book has told the life of a different character, so it's kind of getting old. I feel that Brett should have combined the second and third book to move things along a bit more.
I have also noticed that this is a popular style in horror novels, and they have a tendency to follow a ridiculous amount of characters.
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Kind of along these lines, I’m reading the Divergent series right now (at the request of a shipmate) and I’m almost through the third book. I was pleasantly surprised when she switched from Tris telling the story to Tobias telling the story, and I love how their stories of the same situation lapse from chapter to chapter.
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