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[yuuago]

Harrow the Ninth isn't a second-person POV book that "switches to first person" toward the end. It's first-person the entire time.

There is a distinct first-person narrator, and that narrator is Gideon. She doesn't just show up in the last third of the novel; she's there the entire time, giving a running commentary on Harrow's actions. This was clear to me from the snarky/sarcastic/affectionate comments she slipped in throughout. She doesn't have any capability to act until later, and that's when we get the I - but this isn't a POV switch; it's Gideon describing her own actions rather than "watching" Harrow.