Point of View

The point of view of the novel is told entirely from the perspective of Lucy. Charming and open and vulnerable with the reader, she is a trustworthy narrator that leaves nothing obscured or hidden from us. No matter how strange or depraved her thoughts are, or how explicit, she is not afraid to tell us exactly how she is feeling. This does not mean that she is entirely reliable, however. Everything we have access to in the world is filtered through her consciousness, and her perception is skewed, not through any desire for deception or malice on her part, but by her inability to read Joshua Templeton properly. From the very first moment she meets him, she takes his refusal to look and smile at her as rejection. Far from it, he is actually feeling intense desire for her that is overwhelming to him. But...