And a good plot twist works regardless of whether or not you've figured it out ahead of time. Or when information is revealed to the protagonist - such as the scene in Empire Strikes Back where Darth Vader reveals he's Luke's father.
Example of this approach is the movie The Sixth Sense. The plot twists when we change points of view. We're in the point of view of someone who is either clueless or in denial or doesn't have all the information. Most if not all plot twists are done using an unreliable narrator. The best plot twists - can be predicted by a reader, but are so good the reader is thrilled that they figured it out and can't wait for it to happen. Actually I'm having troubles thinking of any books that have recently.maybe Henry James Turn of the Screw? Or Dauphne Du Maurie's Rebecca - but those were mystery novels. Plot twists are actually quite hard to pull off. You can write a perfectly wonderful book without a plot twist.
So the reader as result is left sputtering in rage and disbelief.ĭon't do this writers! Seriously, the plot twist is not worth it. And they succeed - it is a plot twist.that no reader could possibly predict, mainly because it doesn't make a lot of sense and the writer had to jump through hoops to make it work, in some cases not all destroy characters, and often jump outside the realm of logic. And it will not be revealed until the last 50 or so pages of the novel. Where the author expends almost all of the their energy to create a great jaw-dropping plot twist, and it must be jaw-dropping, it must take the reader completely by surprise. It might sound like any other nurse-patient love story out there but Yours Until Dawn is very different in that the characters so very loveable and the twist at the end of the book is good! I love this book.Yours Until Dawn suffers from an age old problem in genre related fiction, although not usually in the romance genre, thrillers and mystery novels on the other hand. The nursing position pays very well - it has to because of the terrible patient - and Samantha is determined to help Gabriel.Īlong the way they fall in love but Samantha finds she is unable to stay with Gabriel because of a secret she has been keeping from him that puts the relationship at risk. In enters prim and stubborn Samantha Wickersham, a woman who is in need of employment. His various nurses find themselves running for the hills after trying to cope with his behavior from days to a couple of weeks. He behaves like a beast while trying to cope with the fact that he will never see again, driving his family crazy with his obstinate behavior. The story starts out with the hero, Gabriel Fairchild, recovering from a battle that left him blind.
This was the novel that made me fall in love with Teresa Medeiros' works.
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