This is a short story and it’s an excellent use of first person. The Grownup By Gillian Flynn ©2014 Crown Publishing Pages: 62 First Person, Past tense This is a rare instance. A moment where the characters are despicable (pardon my sounding like Daffy Duck) and the opening profession is not something I would care about….
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POV Review – I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
This is the first book I’ve ever read where all POVs are used: First person, Second person, and Third Person (limited). I Let You Go (Debut Novel – it always thrills me to read debuts) by Clare Mackintosh UK Publisher: Sphere ©2014 US Publisher: Berkley ©2016 Agent Sheila Crowley Let’s jump right into this. Three POVs….
POV Review – The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Oh my word, how come I never read this book before now? Everyone says this is such a sad story. If you don’t know any better, it has the requisite ups and bottom of the barrel depths of despair before the main character climbs back up again. Here’s what makes it sad: The story is…
Pull Me Under by Kelly Luce
Pull Me Under by Kelly Luce Publisher: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux ©2016 261 pages Agent: Katherine Fausset Editor: Emily Bell Genre: Literary with a soft mystery bent as to why things happened Pull Me Under is about a lady (hafu – half Japanese, half American – bonus, learned a new word) who killed a classmate…