I despise them with all my being. It’s as if you are watching your favorite movie, and ten minutes in someone switches it out for some random other one. But the worst part is by the time your ten minutes into this other story, you are invested in it and just as it is getting good it is snatched away as well.
I am currently reading a clash of kings, and it is the worst offender I’ve ever seen, with at least 6 different perspectives, I am convinced this is just an underhanded trick for authors who have to bait and switch their audience because they are not confident they can write a story good enough to stand on its own.
What are your thoughts?
by -ConcernedBystander-
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I don’t have anything against them. we probably read different books, and/or read for different reasons.
I’ve always read as a way of expanding my “life” experience. I’ll only ever be me, but reading allows me to live hundreds of different experiences I’ll never have, and see things through the eyes of hundreds of different people. I’ll get to know more about the insides of those people’s minds than I would if I did nothing in my real life but listen to others talk. I don’t read very often for plot.
so no. I guess for me one or two extra people per book isn’t a bother to me at all.
[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/16yp9g2/i_dont_like_multiple_povs_stories_at_all/)’s a thread about this 3 days ago.
I’ll just say I have the opposite perspective
I don’t mind them if they are lengthy enough to get something accomplished. I don’t care for the technique of changing perspective every couple of paragraphs.
Personally I do not like shifts in perspectives unless they are short and a reaction or outsider’s view of the situation.
When I read multiple perspectives I always end up skipping through certain POVs as I’m just always looking forward to a specific one and it makes the others borning