In the last few years I've been writing a series of stories where, sometimes, I just need to tell the same story from two--or sometimes three--different POVs. I've really enjoyed that--and have gotten some great feedback from readers who enjoyed it, two.
I actually find it really cool when authors do this! Not so much a literal retelling of the story, as a new viewpoint on something we've already seen. And little inconsistencies just make the whole thing more interesting. Is one of the characters lying? Are they misremembering? I love that stuff. :D I remember one book I once read that really sticks in my head for having told the first half in first-person POV, then switching to another narrator who is compiling a bio of the first narrator and trying to figure out how much of his story was actually a lie; it was an absolutely fascinating "unreliable narrator" story, especially as you never do get positive answers about some of the supposed "facts" in the first half of the book. But I can also see something like that being massively frustrating rather than interesting, depending on how it's done.
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I actually find it really cool when authors do this! Not so much a literal retelling of the story, as a new viewpoint on something we've already seen. And little inconsistencies just make the whole thing more interesting. Is one of the characters lying? Are they misremembering? I love that stuff. :D I remember one book I once read that really sticks in my head for having told the first half in first-person POV, then switching to another narrator who is compiling a bio of the first narrator and trying to figure out how much of his story was actually a lie; it was an absolutely fascinating "unreliable narrator" story, especially as you never do get positive answers about some of the supposed "facts" in the first half of the book. But I can also see something like that being massively frustrating rather than interesting, depending on how it's done.