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1st person always gives bad wattpad x reader fanfic to me. Maybe most popular first person books are poorly written but it’s so rare that I find one that actually does it well.
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Which do you prefer?
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First-person
Third-person
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Anonymous 3w

Ive read only one that worked and it had an unreliable narrator so the misdirection was actually a gut punch at the climax

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Anonymous 3w

Dude the Farseer trilogy is literally peak though. TKAM was one of my favorite books growing up (until I had to read it for school). I don’t really pay much attention to tense so those are the only two examples I can think of off the top of my head but first person can be peak

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Anonymous 3w

Idk I just Googled “books written in first person” and a lot of well written books came up

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

What was it called??

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

In character driven novels, third person just provides a ton of unnecessary distance and often hampers what the author is trying to do. I can’t think of a character driven novel written in third person that works

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

I’ve plugged it before here but it’s The Cage by Bonnie Kistler

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