Unreliable Narrator Web Novels

Unreliable narrator novels on Tellura play with the gap between what the narrator says and what's actually happening. Narrators who lie, omit, misunderstand, or hide their own nature. Pairs with mystery, psychological, and first-person.

The pleasure is re-reading a chapter after the gap opens, and finding the author was fair the whole time. That is the test of the good ones: the clues were there. First-person makes it possible, epistolary and frame-narrative make it easy, since both give the narrator a reason to shape the account.