Not talking about the obviously shady ones where you know from the first page they’re full of it — I mean the narrators who seemed totally trustworthy, until suddenly you realize… nope.
For me it was probably Nick from The Secret History. He seems like a passive observer at first, just reporting what happened, but by the end I started wondering how much he was leaving out — or rewriting — to protect himself (or his image of the others).
Also, Piranesi from Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. It’s not traditional unreliability — he’s being honest, but you realize later how little of the truth he actually knows. The slow reveal of what’s really going on completely reframed how I’d been reading his narration.
Curious what narrators had you totally on board before the twist. Any you still don’t fully trust, even after finishing the book?
by SnooDonkeys5613