Train Your Readers

Writer's Forum Question: "Is it okay to switch points of view in your novel?"

Short answer: yes. It's okay to do anything you want. If it's a bit unorthodox, subtly train your readers to understand your method and then be consistent with it in your story.

Look at the first few pages of Irvine's Welsh's Trainspotting. The prose, generally, and the dialogue, specifically, are both hard to comprehend and amazing at the same time. By page 10, readers have picked up his rhythm and figured out his style, and they enjoy the wild ride the rest of the way.
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In a piece I'm currently working on, characters text message each other a number of times, and there's zero style guide agreement on how to format text messages in fiction or a screenplay. So I have to pick a style and train my readers that this is what texting looks like in my story.