Point of View

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Which point of view (POV) do you think is the best? Why? Which POV is the worst?

[beth]

I hate 1st person, when there's multiple. Like in Allegiant. It was SO CONFUSING!

[-adonis ❰Stitched you up, put you together With cotton and feather Gave you love, put my heart inside you Oh what could I do When you started talking , A Wild Jakarta]

My theory is that any book that is a series with a first person narration the entire time until the last book, which is split up, the main character will die.
Proof:(view spoiler)[that girl I didn't like died in Reached, and Tris in Allegiant (hide spoiler)]

[tired, A Wild Meiku]

I like third person, and also when it switches through a bunch of characters. ( i.e Heroes of Olympus ) but its also really annoying because something suspenseful is happening to one character but then the author freaking changes to another character and i'm like eifnk efin.,. but i hate first person when theres more than one character because it gets confusing as f-ck (cough the Fifth Wave and Infinite Sea cough) and i forget it changes

[Zombieslayer⚡Alienhunter]

Uh, I guess I prefer first person because it's a better connection to the MC, but third person is better for those of us who have trouble following story lines.

[Audrey]

I'm not that picky, as long as it it well writes. I can't stand first person books that are badly writen. I like it when it's so well writen that the point of view doesn't even matte, cause you don't notes it.

[-adonis ❰Stitched you up, put you together With cotton and feather Gave you love, put my heart inside you Oh what could I do When you started talking , A Wild Jakarta]

[ ☯ ] serein ━ ❝ waste my time, burn my mind wrote: "I like third person, and also when it switches through a bunch of characters. ( i.e Heroes of Olympus ) but its also really annoying because something suspenseful is happening to one character but ..."

Sometimes I consder skipping to their next POV and

[[deleted user]]

Third person; I find that descriptions in first person can often seem over-the-top and unrealistic. I dunno, I feel like the author has to take on a simpler writing style when they write in first person.

[s]

Aubree wrote: "Third person; I find that descriptions in first person can often seem over-the-top and unrealistic. I dunno, I feel like the author has to take on a simpler writing style when they write in first p..."

Yes, although the genre comedy seems to work well with first person a lot of the time.

[[deleted user]]

Definitely! And there are times first person works great, like in the Percy Jackson books. But in general, I tend to prefer third person because first person can become, well, over-the-top, Twilight style.