The Unreliable Narrator

I read a nice article today on the unreliable narrator. I know I enjoy stories where I have to discover what is happening along with the characters, which is a form of unreliable narration simply because if the main character doesn't know what's happening in the story, then we can't rely on anything being told to us. It will be biased. I like this sort of unreliable story telling. I don't necessarily enjoy the type of unreliable narration where the main character is intentionally lying to me or is mentally unbalanced (though I did enjoy Fight Club.)

In my novels, The Obsidian Embers Trilogy, I use a form of unreliable narration in which we switch between the antagonist point of view and the protagonist, thus never truly getting to know who is the real bad guy. When you look at the events of the story from the Order of Obsidian Embers, my rebel group looks like the bad guys, people willing to kill anyone even associated with the Order. When you look from the rebels, it seems that those deaths a necessary. I've always believed that the villain believes they are the hero of their own story, not in a always do right sort of way, but in a truly believing they are doing bad things to achieve a good goal way. I try to write in that way.

There's a scene in Kindling, first book of the trilogy, where a rebel and the head of the Order have a conversation. During that scene, the leader of the Order makes enough good points that my beta reader came back to me with "I'm so confused. She makes so much sense! Have I been rooting for the wrong side?" In another moment, I show a scene from a member of the Order, someone who has likely done unspeakable things, and she's killed by one of my main girls. A reader who'd read nothing but that scene told me it was obvious that Marietta, my main female good character, was the villain of the book.

I'd never felt more like I'd accomplished my goals than in those two moments. I love unreliable narration like this.

How do you, as readers, feel?