Point of View

This novel is told from the narrator's first-person point of view. Consider: “I forget everything between footsteps” (1). Aiden narrates in present tense from his own point of view. His reader is experiencing the plot of the novel developing as Aiden experiences it. The novel is unique because little background information is necessary for the reader. Aiden starts as a blank canvas. He remembers the name Anna is significant, but he is not sure why.

The first-person point of view is ideal for this novel because it allows the reader to follow along with Aiden as he experiences the day of Evelyn’s faked suicide through the eyes of different hosts. Consider this detail when he views and comments on a scene: “He’s not looking at the reflecting pool as I thought when I witnessed this moment as Ravencourt, but away to his right” (219). Aiden...