first person
Dec. 30th, 2008 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaideni am wary of novels told in first person. especially speculative fiction - there's no reason for the POV character to feed the reader background. if it's first person, past tense, i want to know who the POV character is talking to. (if he/she/it is addressing the reader as "you" i certainly want to know why.) i know some people are disconcerted by first person present, but i rather like it since it has more logic.
anyway, i read two first person novels back-to-back.
Storm Front, by Jim Butcher: if this book were a car, it would have square wheels and a 2 cylinder engine. Butcher (who is a lovely man and i'm glad he's making a living) gets mired in a pile of exposition every time it looks like the story is going to pick up steam. meh.
Grimspace, by Ann Aguirre: it went down like a fresh oyster*. quick, smooth, delicious, no aftertaste. i have a vague desire for more. it was pretty much the sort of experience i hoped for from Storm Front. plus it had sex scenes. it doesn't rise beyond space opera, but i breezed through it overnight and i would happily read the sequel.
*not from the hands of a hot young girl, but we can't have everything.
anyway, i read two first person novels back-to-back.
Storm Front, by Jim Butcher: if this book were a car, it would have square wheels and a 2 cylinder engine. Butcher (who is a lovely man and i'm glad he's making a living) gets mired in a pile of exposition every time it looks like the story is going to pick up steam. meh.
Grimspace, by Ann Aguirre: it went down like a fresh oyster*. quick, smooth, delicious, no aftertaste. i have a vague desire for more. it was pretty much the sort of experience i hoped for from Storm Front. plus it had sex scenes. it doesn't rise beyond space opera, but i breezed through it overnight and i would happily read the sequel.
*not from the hands of a hot young girl, but we can't have everything.
