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Originally Posted by Yapyap
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.
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That could be, I suppose. I guess I've just never really gave much thought to whether I "liked" the narrator or not. Especially when so many are not specifically written to be liked. *shrug*