I have a question and want answers please!

[Ghost_Queen]

Hello! I was wondering for the people that read romance, do you like it better when it's the girl's point of view or the guy? I notice that for novels it's mostly the girl having the point of view, with some occasional shifts but it goes back to her's after.

I choose to have a split between the two but the male protagonist tends to have a longer pov because I think it's a change from the regular romance novel. Anyways please tell me your opinions on the pov.

[darthmongoose]

I don't read a ton of heterosexual romance personally (though when I do read non-GL, I like a female PoV character), but I'd suggest that since Tapas readers are mostly female, making the PoV in a het romance female is probably more likely to gain readers, so if you don't have a particular personal preference, that might be the more "optimal" choice for this platform.

[SleepingPoppy]

I would say I prefer a female POV for any straight romances I read. I don't mind a back and forth, though. As long as the story looks interesting, and I like the inner voice, it's not any kind of deal breaker. Though I will say with romance, I'm looking to get into the mindset of the heroine, so I get more out of it when that's the main perspective.

[MK_Wizard]

To be honest, I like looking at both people's perspective. When you only see one person's POV, you only get half of the story and when it comes to romance, it is all about the couple not just one.

[Flios]

I don't really know here, but I can say that half boy half girl perspective could be a compromise for those who don't want to throw away a side of the story.

[TheLemmaLlama]

To be honest, I like looking at both people's perspective. When you only see one person's POV, you only get half of the story and when it comes to romance, it is all about the couple not just one.

Haha I'm pretty much the opposite; I like sticking to one person's POV because if I get both, it feels more like I'm an omniscient voyeur peeking in on their relationship than an intimate participant XD (Which is weird because I'm aro, but idk it still feels weirder to me to read a romance from that high of a perspective for some reason :P)

As for whose POV I'd prefer to get, for me it's less dependent on gender but more on ... uh, whose perspective it would be most interesting to observe? Which I guess is kind of tautological, so I'll give some examples:

• If A changes as a person more than B throughout the course of the story, I'd prefer A's POV
• If A is kind of a mysterious character and half the fun is figuring out how they tick, making A the POV character is basically spoilers (though I guess this can be done right sometimes via making them an Unreliable Narrator)
• If one partner is particularly troubled, I often find it draining to inhabit their POV and ... sometimes find them 'whiny', if I'm being completely honest* On the other hand I tend to find them more sympathetic when I'm observing them through their partner's POV
• If one partner is particularly weird but their weird thought processes doesn't become shared knowledge at any point during the story**, I'd prefer to inhabit their POV because otherwise I'd never know what they were actually thinking

*

This is just an uncontrollable emotional reaction towards fictional characters; if you're troubled and have a lot of depressing internal monologue I don't think you're whiny at all and I'm not judging you! I felt the need to put this reassurance here because I myself have some angsty internal monologue and if someone else posted my comment I can totally see myself reading it and thinking oh no I'm WHINY and therefore a TERRIBLE PERSON - so the last thing I want to do is make someone else feel that way

**

Though I guess this would be unusual in a romance, where the two main characters are supposed to connect with each other and understand each other to some degree

[Lensing]

When I can identify a lot with the main character then yes I would like to have a guy´s
pov, when I can´t identify with the main character then I would probably prefer the
female pov

[system]

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