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Originally Posted by Catlady
I listen to a lot of books that alternate narrators by chapter as the POV shifts. I just listened to Erin Kelly's He Said/She Said, which does exactly that. I think it's generally effective and helps me remember whose version of events I am hearing.
It can get out of hand, though, after a certain point, but I think the problem is with the way the author has structured the story. Paula Hawkins's Into the Water is a mess, with half a dozen different narrators voicing about twice that many characters who have chapters told from their POV. It was hard to follow as an audiobook, but I believe it would have been even more difficult to read the text.
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I looked at the book sample for
He Said/She Said and it appears that each chapter alternates between him and her. It seems multiple narrators would be an effective method for that book. It looks like
Into the Water also has each chapter represent a different character. Thanks for the book examples! They sound interesting so maybe I'll give one a try.
Manhattan Beach isn't structured that way so maybe that's why it seems more of a disjointed mess. It will be a long period of one narrator and then switch to another for only a short period and switch then back again all while in the same chapter.