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As much as I am enjoying the book Linger by Maggie Stiefvater, the sequel to Shiver, I am now really annoyed with the POV shifting.  In the first book she wrote in first person, with each chapter from the POV of one of two people, which was okay.  I could set my mind to who was telling the story for that chapter and get on with it.  Not my favorite thing, but it's worked in certain books I've read.  In Linger she's shifting between the first person points of view of four people, but instead of doing it all within one chapter, it can shift viewpoints three or four times per chapter.  If she was going to do that, she should have just written in third person.  It is too easy to lose track of who is telling the story this way.  I keep having to flip back a page or two to see the label of the section to recall who is telling the story at whichever point I'm at.  It's frustrating and makes me lose story flow.  Her editor should not have let her get away with this, previous best seller or not.