I have a really strong CP 406 D ! I also have a pretty decent CP 408 . <| sep |> The series of novels I ' m writing now have a mess of tenses and POV . Each one has a main first person character in present tense , but two or three other characters who are third person past tense . I agree that third person present sounds a bit weird , but I think it works quite well for first person . The characters in each novel are different , but the one thing they all have in common is that they are the one that understands the least about what is truly going on . I ' ve had a lot of feedback over the years , and whilst the majority is positive , I ' ve had exactly two comments like yours that just refused to read more than a few pages because of the present tense sections . Most people don ' t mind it or even particularly register it if it ' s done well enough , but there is a certain type of reader that just hates it regardless I ' ve found .