I know for a fact that this book is advertised as a romance. This book is not a romance. This book is about a real problem that is common and helps us understand what the victim goes through. The romance is just a part of the bigger picture. We follow Lily who is a woman who grew up in an abusive home. She is the type of person who tried her hardest to leave her past behind the moment she had a chance to. Lily promised herself that she would never turn out like her mother. But after meeting a nice guy on the night of her father's funeral, things seem to be going great. He's nice, good looking, and is successful. Lily even unknowingly becomes best friends with his sister. Lily even starts hew own business and life couldn't look even more perfect. Well, until one drunken night where Ryle, Lily's love interest and husband, ends up grabbing a hot dish from the oven with his bare hands and drops the dish, shattering it all over the floor. Under the influence, Lily laughs at the predicament only to upset Ryle. In his anger he ends up pushing her onto the broken glass and she gets flashbacks to her childhood and her parents. She ends up telling Ryle that if it ever happened again, she will leave him. This time it will be an accident, but next time it won't be. Of course it happens again because he found the number of an old friend of Lily's phone. She tries to explain the situation and he ends up pushing her down the stairs, but tells her that she fell. She eventually forgives him. Until it happens again. This time over a newspaper article. Lily ends up sneaking out of her home when Ryle is asleep and hides out at her old friend's house for a few days. She is still going through the reasoning and wondering what she could have done to prevent Ryle from getting angry. This is probably what abused women go through all of the time. They are convinced that it is their fault and if they try to do whatever they can, they won't get hurt. This book is eye opening to a world most of us don't understand. But to have it advertised as a romance is a shame. How are we to learn the lessons this book teaches if we focus on the romance. Ryle is using romance to make Lily question herself in her relationship. I haven't quite finished the book yet, I know that there is a second one after this. I want to see what other lessons will be taught with this book and the one that follows. This book isn't the author romanticizing a serious topic, it's the media.
So until next time....
-Lys
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