Question about POV

Southern_girl29 said:

I'm working on a romantic suspense novel at the moment. It is a rework of something I had been writing last fall, but I came to a brick wall, took some time off from it, and now I'm coming back to it. Anyway, I usually write third person limited with only one POV throughout the whole novel. Will this work in romantic suspense? I've read many books in that genre, but I think all of them are told from multiple POVs. Can I get away with doing just one?

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You can get away with doing most things if you do them well.

The issue here is, unless you're doing first person, which sort of makes you stuck with one POV (and I say sort of because I have actually read romances that were first person POV, alternating heroine and hero POV) romance readers have sort of gotten used to having both main character's POV.

It didn't used to be this way. So again, I think you can make it work. But you're going to have to work at it. Make everything else so fantastic that no one even bats an eye that it doesn't have any other POVs in the book.

Susan G.

Not a problem. If it's the best way to tell your story, go for it.