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Incredible book. Takes a chapter or two to get used to the writing style (2d person present tense if I recall).
Correction: 3rd person. Somehow the present tense throws a different reading rhythm that you have to get into first.
Wouldn't 2nd person be more like
The snippet above read like 3rd person present tense to me, which is still definitely unusual.
Yeah, 2nd person is pretty rare. the "Broken Earth" books by NK Jemisen are 2nd person, if i recall.
Interesting, only instances I can think of for 2nd person writing are those old "choose your own adventure" books.