Tag Archives: first person narrator
The First Person Narrator…
I used to hate books that were all I I I. Many seemed to be an excuse for lazy writing to me. And some still are, but I no longer turn away the second I see that the story is being told by an “I”, because they can be quite wonderful, in a good author’s hands.
Kindred
It is 1976 and Dana and her husband have just moved into a new home. They’ve only been married four years, but both now seem to be mak [...]
The Book Thief
At the end of the nineteen thirties in Germany a little girl travelled with her mother and brother on the train. The children were being sen [...]
Year of wonders
The year is 1665 and Anna Frith is a widow at only 18 years of age. She has two young sons to support and she works hard. Life in a small vi [...]
Wolves
I totally agree with that old saying “never judge a book by its cover”, but more often than not it is the cover that piques your [...]
The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince
Illustrated by Jackie Morris. Some years ago1 I first discovered Robin Hobb and her wonderful wonderful awesome series of books The Farseer [...]
Downturn Abbey
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly started life in The Sunday Times and currently stars in The Irish Times, he is a fictional wealthy southside Dubl [...]
Moxyland
Set in a fictional, futuristic Cape Town in South Africa Moxyland is a book that I’m somewhat conflicted about. I read Beukes’ Z [...]
The Ghost Bride
Li Lan is seventeen. Her mother died of smallpox when she was very young, her father was so scarred by the disease at the same time that he [...]
Thorn
A retelling of The Goose Girl story. Princess Alyrra has not has a happy life. Growing up in fear of her brother and trying to stay on her m [...]
