![]() For instance, when Alec insists on taking her to a ball, she wears a hideous dog dress because… I don’t know. She alternates between insecurity and boldness according to the needs of the plot, and she is often juvenile and foot-stomping in the manner of “adorable” and “feisty” nineties heroines. The artist she modeled for is so blatantly and aggressively awful that you question her intelligence for having believed them in love. Unfortunately, however, everything that happens in the book’s present is contrived, and the marriage plot and “I’m not worthy” separation device are frustrating and unsuccessful.Īs a character, Lily doesn’t work for me. ![]() Putting a catastrophic bad choice in the heroine’s past is a bold move by the author. Lily’s absentee guardian, Alec Stuart, Duke of Warnick, comes to save her by marrying her off to anybody but him. When he betrays her by winning a contest with the private work, she is both brokenhearted and ruined. Lillian “Lily” Hargrove agreed to pose naked for a painter she loved. ![]()
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