I have to say that I think the mingling of 1st and 3rd person
can work very well - haven't read the Parker book, but I
liked the device in "LA Requiem" and some of the more recent
Jan Burke books (ie, "Bones"). I think it's a perfectly
sensible way of allowing the author to keep the voice and
immediacy of a first person narrative while providing
information and points of view that the first person narrator
can't have. Of course, the author COULD tell the whole thing
in third person but if the vast majority of the book is going
to be from the "hero"'s POV, and the series has previously
been told from in first person, it seems like a best of both
worlds situation to me. There does reach a point where the
book gets so far outside the "narrator" character that it's
better just to switch to 3rd person - as Burke did in her
most recent book, "Flight." But otherwise I don't really see
a problem.
Carrie
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