for context, the asks about finishing htn and the pov shift were both from me, the same person

Oh man how about that pov shift tho????? When that first “me” hit I was out of my fucking mind. By the time we got to full on first person I was bawling. Also I’ve just been thinking about this a lot, especially after watching Bly Manor with the reveal at the end that the gardener was the storyteller when the actual story we experienced as an audience so obviously centered on Dani, experienced from her eyes, with Jamie cast as a side character. Just the idea of a narrator telling the story from her lover’s point of view is incredibly striking, this erosion of the self in the face of observing somebody else, and bringing that person to life through the telling. It’s Gideon’s story, but she’s made it Harrow’s. And if you look back, there are plenty of moments where she’d peeked through, like every single time Harrow referred to the pommel by other descriptions, that was Gideon correcting her. All sorts of little reactions and teasing and jokes and even reassurances that Harrow of course had no way of perceiving. A lot of people dislike the “second person” perspective but imo it’s one of the best, coolest, most emotional elements of this book.