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Originally Posted by apesmom
Have you tried Pamela Clare's McKinnon's Rangers series?
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Love those McKinnon brothers! Clare has said she's writing two more to it.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
I remember someone around did hate first person stories. I personally love them if they are done right but I've yet to read a historical where it works. 
One of my resolutions for the year is to read a sample of the book before purchasing if I am unfamiliar with the author. In this case the writing did not catch me within the first few pages. |
I never, ever one-click and this is exactly why. D'oh!
And really, I don't mind FP in say, poetry. I really enjoy getting into the head of both of the main characters, and that's really difficult to do in this tense.
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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
I don't exactly hate them, but far too many authors have no idea how to tell a story from a first-person perspective and make it believable and enjoyable to read at the same time. If they can't get it right in the first page or two, I delete the book from my library and move on.
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So far I've only read the prologue, but it's not bothering me too terribly much. It's not the active "I do this, then this, and I think this" that makes me crazy. It's more like a memoir, but I don't see the benefit of doing the story this way.
My sinus infection seems to be re-rearing its ugly head (ran from mid-Sept to mid-Dec, on antibiotics for 9 weeks) and my head is killing me, so I might be switching to something lighter. Reading's easier on my sore head than the backlit computer and tablet.