A Writerly Dissertation...

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in hopelessly fannish realms of thought.

Truth is, I'm currently obsessing over "point of view" in narrative, because I'm juggling it in my own writing. But this is all Thief, Queen, King-dom I promise.

I recently was pondering that both QoA and KoA are not written in Gen's voice. That was something that made The Thief so stellar, so delicious. I have inklings about why that is (which I'll post and try to put under a cut below) but what are your opinions on that? Why isn't Gen telling his story anymore? Is it a loss?

I guess the first story is put up as Eugenides's written account to Eddis.
And in some sense, the mystery of not knowing what Gen is up to is kept more in-the-now because we don't see everything that's going on. Obviously, KoA is all about what Costis is seeing, and how he's blindsided by the king's cleverness. But I loved the way Gen was telling the story, but not the whole story, and only unravels it all at the end of the Thief. There is a thrill to hearing it all over again to. I'm reading it aloud to my little brothers, after reading it aloud to my little sister, after rereading it myself all in the last six months, and I'm still laughing over ways we're slyly told what's visible and kept from seeing what's going on.

But [whines] I miss his voice!

I would love to have another story in his POV. Unfortunately, I'm too respectful of the writer to go lobbying for my wants in further installments.

Interested in what the other bookish people about have to say on this. To not put too fine a point on it. (^_^)

Thanks!