Why I chose to do this? Well I had a hard time connecting to the female MC initially so I wrote it in 1st to better get in her head. But then I don't like having all the other characters filtered through the lens of 1st person. So I did the third person thing for her two love interests.
Would you as a reader find this annoying? It doesn't bother me (obviously) and as I do a final pass through before self-pubbing it, it seems to make sense/work out fine. But I don't want a ton of reviews that say that they loved the premise and the characters but the switch up in tenses annoyed them.
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I've polled some of my blog readers and most thought they wouldn't like it while some acknowledged that they had never read a book set up like that. Laurie R. King wrote her Mary Russell series with the 1st/3rd thing and I checked out her reviews on GoodReads. It seems that people have a bigger problem with her treatment of Sherlock Holmes than how she wrote the book.
I just want to make the right decision. It's a lot of work to go back and change everything to 3rd person. Sigh. Any advice would be helpful.