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>I haven't read any Dunnett, but I'm putting her on my >TBR list! *s* Lately I've been on a faerie kick. >Patricia A. McKillip. Melisa Marr. And I stumbled upon >*be still my heart* Holly Black. I found myself so >immersed and emotionally engaged in her stories that I >never noticed style or the mechanics of how she >writes. High praise from me! *s* I'm eagerly awaiting >her latest, due out in May. She has multiple POV's >throughout, but not within the same scene...but she >just released an anthology of short stories The Poison >Eaters and one vignette revisits the characters in her >Tithe, Valiant, Ironside series. The POV <i>does</i> >shift back and forth. Repeatedly. It reads clean >though and it's very clear who's talking as it >switches between the King of the Unseelie Court and a >twenty something guy who are both suffering >insecurities about their love lives. Suffering the ><i>same</i> insecurities. *s* Which is fascinating >since the guy it gay and the king is a faerie and both >their thought processes and how they handle themselves >are distinctly different, but driven by the same >feelings. How does she manage to do that? No idea. >*ggg* So I like reading a shifting POV, that gives me >peeks into the different character's heads, but I >don't enjoy a wavering POV at all. There the story >feels muzzy and confusing and I spend a lot of time >trying to figure out what's going on, till I'm >eventually annoyed to the point I won't read it >anymore.
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