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.
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 [...]
The Bone Knife
You can get this one free if you’d like to try it. See Khanani’s site for links The Bone Knife is a short story, and to me it fe [...]
Parasite
Book 1 in the Parasitology series. Sally Mitchell was in a car crash, suffered brain damage, but just as her family were about to agree to s [...]
Wake of the Bloody Angel
Book 4 in the Eddie LaCrosse series. Eddie LaCrosse has a new client, and it is a surprising one to him. Angelina, the innkeeper and an old [...]
