I also think it sucks that we only get mare's pov from the reds but I think it's because (as much as the whole premise of the book is red x silver) it won't really be like this in this one? I could be very wrong but I think it's going to be more like 'everyone against maven and then let's see what we do after about reds x silvers'. if that makes any sense. +
+ so we get mare for the reds. evie because she’s joining mare and we need to know how she’s going to interact with them and deal with their ideas from her pov. cal i honestly dont know why. maybe he wont join the scarlet guard? idk i dont care a lot about him. iris because we need to know whats going on with the silvers and maven because we need for once to actually know what he’s thinking. +
+ that was always my thing about having a maven pov. we had other people narrate his actions and choices but we never knew what he really thought or how much of what he says/does is him or what’s left of the boy elara molded. im sure 99.9% of everything he says and does is pre calculated on how it will best bring him what he wants and im so excited to finally see how his mind works
I agree. I can see that Cal, Iris, and Maven have reasons to be included as POVs, I don’t deny that. But do we need to see all three of them (plus Eve)? Iris and Maven will be together, I suppose (although Maven might only have one or two chapters more about himself than the plot). Cal and Eve are in one place. They’re in one place with Mare right now, and the excerpt we had shows that they’ll continue to be in the same place. What’s the point of letting each of them narrate? King’s Cage did very well with changing the POVs efficiently and only when neccessary, and if Aveyard now employs different POVs only to let them see one and the same thing from different eyes, it varies extremely from the kind of the narration in the series so far.Â
Those are just predictions, though. I’ll see how it turns out in the book. I could imagine both Cal and Maven’s POVs won’t be that long. In der Kürze liegt die Würze.