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rae remember it is from lily's point of view and it shows how the victims perception of their abusive spouse is warped, just like how lily was questioning how her mom handled it its not trying to glorify or justify what he did but like its trying to show how the victims minds can be warped and mix the abuse up with love

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Laura Kammerer I agree that he would totally lose it if he found out about Lily and Atlas later. I also struggled with the fact that NOW it's okay to leave their 11month old alone with him. No. I don't think so.

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Alessandra Jaeger

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Arabella Ryle was highlighted as a good person in most of the book even though he did unforgivable things. This is because it is from the perception of someone in love with him. The author attempted to make us fall for him just like Lily did so that we would be able to empathize with her and feel her heartbreak as the book progressed. I think this was done not to justify but to elaborate on why Lily struggled to leave him immediately after he hurt her. This is one of the reasons why the book is so good because it enables the reader to understand what Lily went through on a deeper level.

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Marcin I felt the same when reading. Its like the author is making lots of excuses for Ryle and why he is fine at the end to look after the infant. Very strange!

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Marissa Arrojado

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Ashley White If you read the author's note at the end, she explains that Ryle is not meant to represent all abusive relationships, as they are all different, but rather that Ryle was very closely based on her own father. Things that may seem unbelievable actually seem to be based on the truth.

As for the author wanting us to empathize with Ryle, I'm not sure. What we did see is how easy it was for Lily to make excuses for him, forgive him, and love him, even when she knew that wasn't the best thing to do. I think some of the making Ryle seem better than he was was not the author's doing, but rather Lily's doing as she justified his behavior.

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