Hello fellow writers, I am in the process of writing a book. I won't bore you with details, so just know that there will be two main characters who will eventually meet. I would like to tell the story from each of their point of view. So chapter 1 is from character A's point of view, chapter 2 is from character B, chapter 3 is from character A and so on. In order to really tell the story through their own eyes and minds, I would like to write as a character-narrator, so in "I" for both of them. Do you think it could be confusing for the reader ? BTW don't worry about my book being written in poor grammar/wording based on this post, because I will write it in my first language which is not English.
It's possible that you have mostly seen distant or omniscient third person writing, and so you feel that you can't really get into the characters' heads with third person. But you can. You can absolutely tell the story through the characters' eyes and minds by using close third person limited point of view. You don't need first person.
It can be done, and has been. But if you are going to use 1st person for both, make sure it's very obvious to the reader whose POV you are writing from at all times, and make sure the narrative voices are distinctly different from one another.
What Ed said. There are plenty of 1st person POV books that do what you are after, not at all uncommon.
For an example of how it's done well, I suggest the novel Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. Although there is one "main" narrator, other characters do narrate a few of the chapters, and it's all in first person. Each character voice is distinctive, as @EdFromNY suggests, and I was never confused as to who was speaking or what was happening. The chapter headings helped clarify it as well, but the character voices stood on their own.
