hello everyone! i have a request that may be difficult to answer without spoiling the kind of book i'm looking for. i'm on a hunt for unreliable narrators where it's not immediately apparent the narrator is unreliable. when i think of an unreliable narrator, my mind goes toward someone who's an outcast, not really liked by the other characters or the reader, someone who's kind of weird (this is at least my experience with these characters), or maybe the book is just on the darker side. does anyone have a recommendation for a book where the main character was likable and even seemed sane for most of the book until there was a moment where it clicked like "oh, this person is actually a big fat liar"?

So I just posted the below in the fourm of the book, but I feel like I need some extra validation on this 😂

Okay this is a little petty of me, but god damn I hate when authors use the same description too often. You know the whole "she let out a breath she didn't know she was holding" thing? Well, [author] has taken it a step further! On the exact same page, she has written "I thrust it open with more force than necessary..." And then. 5 lines later: " toss it open with more force than necessary..." WHYYYYYYY!? Surely! Surely! You could have found another way to say this not using the EXACT same words!!!!! Goddamn this infuriates me!

Please tell me I'm not the only one? Also, why do editors not pick up on this? Or is it something they fight authors on? The english language has so many different adjectives I just can't understand why they'd choose to repeat the same wording so close together.