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Why We Trust the Wrong People: Unreliable Narrator

A golden mask lying upon the open pages of a book that are on fire and curling smoke is rising from them. This depicts the concept of the unreliable narrator in the psychological thriller Cobra Orchard by Terveen Gill

Why We Trust the Wrong People: Unreliable Narrator

Published by Terveen Gill on June 16, 2026

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Trust is the most mistrusted commodity in this world.” A dialogue from my Psychological Thriller Cobra Orchard. Storytelling is not as simple as it appears. Throw in an unreliable narrator and the reader is in for a wild and bumpy ride. Why do we trust so easily?