So I'm reading kids' books with my kids these days, and Lemony Snicket has started a trend of chatty omniscient narrators that I strongly dislike. This Book Is Not Good For You (by "Pseudonymous Bosch," alas) has a paranoid narrator who accuses the reader of trying to poison him/her, but who is omniscient within the overtly fictional narrative.

Snicket/Daniel Handler, BTW, apparently wrote an "incest opera", which mixed Jewish mythology with modern sexuality. And he's a fan of C. S. Lewis. Not sure what to make of that.