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What books do you think could have benefited from multiple points of view?



I just finished reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt. It was a good book which I relatively enjoyed but by the end of the book, I felt something was lacking. I then realized that the book would have been so much better if it had had at least one pov of Henry. I don't want to give too much away about The Secret History but Henry's mysterious character was a source of intrigue throughout most of the book and in a way, that intrigue worked to make me interested, but by the time I finished the book, I felt that if I had read at least one chapter with his pov, it would have been much more interesting and entertaining.

Having multiple povs can be a hit or miss, but sometimes, I brings some much needed depth into a book. This is especially true if the book is not focused mainly on a character's internal struggles but an external one. In the Secret History, the narrator's struggles were more external than internal and to some extent, I believe he was not the most interesting character in the book. He felt like a side character sometimes. That's why by the time the book ended, I felt like "Dang, I would have really loved to enter the minds of the other characters"

Are there any books like this that come to mind even apart from TSH?

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