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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The general dislike for first person narratives (YA or not) has been one the biggest surprises of my "online life." I enjoy well-written first person stuff myself. Couldn't have been more shocked to discover it was a stand-alone "factor" in determining what people like, actually. Sort of akin to not liking the past tense.  |
I don't mind first person as a concept at all, but it's a lot, hm, riskier?
I think that - in good, capable hands - having a first person narrative is a very useful tool for showing the narrator's/protagonist's "voice". It can help enormously with the characterisation; just the choice of words, the trains of thought, so on.
On the other hand, if you don't like the narrator and find the narrator's voice grating, irritating, or annoying, it makes the book (for me anyway)
much harder to enjoy, compared to third person narratives. So that's one factor that might affect a lot of people's enjoyment of that - and perhaps if you first get exposed to a lot of irritating narrators, it becomes something to avoid?
And YA in particular, sadly, is often full of irritating narrators.