Looking for books with that eerie "calm before the storm" narrator moment.
I'm trying to find novels that have a very specific narrative device I'm obsessed with. You know when the story suddenly pulls away from the main characters for a moment, and the narrator basically goes "meanwhile, unbeknownst to our heroes, something was stirring…"
Like, the characters are going about their business, and then the narrative zooms out to show us a stranger riding into town at midnight, or storm clouds gathering on the horizon, or some ancient evil waking up. That moment where you as the reader know everything is about to change, but the characters are still blissfully unaware.
Bonus points if the narrator explicitly acknowledges it – something like "this would be the last peaceful night they would know" or "had they known what was coming, they might have savored that ordinary Tuesday more."
I'm looking for that delicious dread of watching the dominoes start to fall while the characters are still in their normal world. Hit me with your recommendations!
by Much-Neighborhood383
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