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The novel just shifted from 3rd person to 1st; I’m suddenly so confused on who’s narrating now

Finished section 1; Very interested in the dynamic between Willem and Jude, especially after the backstory involving Hemming. Would love to learn more about JB besides his little artsy career. And I’d love to read more about Malcolm, I feel like I’ve learned more about how he feels than seeing him actually get to do anything

I’m finding myself to be really annoyed with JB (probably because I find the whole Starving Artist archetype to be incredibly irritating and poorly carried out in a lot of media), but the description of JB knowing why Jude would hate the portrait he’s making was so lovely to read. I feel like there’s so much intimacy in knowing someone so deeply that you know exactly what it is that they’re insecure about