Writing Question

[sartorias]

I'm workshopping a ms that I really love. In fact I'd rather read it than some of this pile of published books (that I've already picked over pretty often). It's not a matter of if this thing will sell, but where. A fantasy, its magic system alone scintillates with kewlness, and then there's there characters! But. I do see something that might need to be addressed, the more because it's more evident up front, and too frequently "up front" is all the chance a manuscript gets these days.

What I'm thinking is, rather than risk frustrating someone by saying Let's talk about your narrative voice--thereby engendering a long discussion of What-I-mean-no-what-do-you-mean-no-what-do-you-Think-I-mean, I want to ask: Who is your narrator

So my question is, would a discussion opening posed that way help or hinder you of someone threw it at you?