I am wondering if there are any novels where for the most time you think that the narrator is a regular third-person omniscient voice, totally neutral and beyond the story, but then at the end of the book, there is a huge zoom out, and it becomes apparent that the narrator was not abstract and detached at all, but a key entity/protagonist/something else. Does anything come to your mind?
by LanaDiPati
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The Book Thief?
Maybe Book 2 of the Locked Tomb Series?
I can recommend some where there is a shocking narrator twist, but not the scenario you describe. If I explained what the twist was it would ruin it though!
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell
The Death Dancer by Vincent Kane
I hesitate to recommend the book I’m thinking of because naming the book gives away the twist that makes the book’s emotional impact so gut-wrenching!
But if you really want to know, >! Nickel Boys !< by Colson Whitehead
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
axolotl by julio cortazar (very short story)
Behind Her Eyes kinda hits this. Not exactly but close.
Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris sort of. It’s more a case of misleading you as to who the narrator is
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Melmoth, Sarah Perry