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The one and only time it might be ok to use first person present tense narration

Lent by Jo Walton

June 21, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I was hesitant to pick this up because it’s written in first person, present tense; I’m not much of a fan of either of those. It didn’t surprise me that I was having a hard time getting into the story. I don’t know what happened, but when I picked it up again the next day, I couldn’t put it down. Jo Walton might be a bit of a miracle worker for that. Lent is basically a fictionalized version of 1492-1498 Florence, Italy. The city was […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, History, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Girolamo Savanarola, jo walton, Lent, Medici, Pico della Mirandola, Renaissance Italy, Speculative Fiction

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:43 · Genres: Fantasy, History, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Girolamo Savanarola, jo walton, Lent, Medici, Pico della Mirandola, Renaissance Italy, Speculative Fiction ·
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