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jackmerlin ([personal profile] jackmerlin) wrote in [community profile] trennels 2021-10-29 09:31 am (UTC)

I was interested in the comments on the use of first person narratives - how it wasn't really an option for Forest, and certainly wouldn't have allowed her to switch point of view in the way she so often does. The different points of view are one of the (many) strengths of the Marlow books for me. And how Daisy May Jackson has used the interesting technique of a first person POV but not of the main character, thus enabling both a sense of immediacy but also a little distance. This seems like a clever solution to the modern trend to have almost every YA or children's book told in the first person.

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