good kisser, better cryer.

I think the thing that really makes a single pov book Really Fucking Good and the thing that sorcery and small magics does expertly is when you can tell the non pov character is Thinking Something, but the narrator can't. Like, you know when you're reading a book and the character Says Something and you immediately clock their shit? My favorite thing is when you can figuratively make eye contact with the non pov character over the narrators head as they do the same thing, and there are SEVERAL points where this happens w Grimm and it's just delicious, and like it can be difficult to write a character who is stupid (affectionate) and write this in a way where they do not notice themselves getting clocked but where it's still clear to the reader that this is happening, and ssm REALLY pulls this off. Each reread I get more desperate for grimms pov bc I can SEE you thinking over there, on the other side of the page, let me in gayboy I need to KNOW