Happy Sunday! I've read many books with unrelatable, unlikable, or unreliable characters as well as narrators that were unnamed. They are books I love to hate. Books that make me mad at the characters, their actions, or their storyline in general. But, unable to put them down, because I want to know how they end. Do the characters redeem themselves in the end? Yes, no, maybe. Do I want to throw the book across the room? Yes, no, maybe. Reading is an experience!
When it comes to the unreliable narrator, the first rule of reading is to not read anything more about it than a brief description. All the charm in this genre is surprise so you must be diligent in avoiding spoilers.
Jessica Strawser's The Last Caretaker started out with good intentions then went down the wrong path in dealing with domestic violence, vigilante justice and solving problems without the authorities.
Leslie Wolfe's The Surgeon when a cardiac patient died under mysterious circumstances and the lead characters were involved in abuse, adultery, blackmail, and decided vigilante justice without the police was the best solution.
The unrelatable character you may or may not grow to love such as Lisbet in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or MacKayla or Jericho in the Dark Fever Series.
Then you have the unnamed characters which really don't make any difference when the story pulls at your heartstrings or haunts you until the end such as Cormac McCarthy's The Road or Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian.
Reading Flawed Protagonists: Relatability Versus Likeability
Love to Hate Them: Books with Unlikable Main Characters
30 Books With Unreliable Narrators
10 Books With Unnamed Narrators
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