![]() Hoover’s ( November 9, 2015, etc.) latest tackles the difficult subject of domestic violence with romantic tenderness and emotional heft.Īt first glance, the couple is edgy but cute: Lily Bloom runs a flower shop for people who hate flowers Ryle Kincaid is a surgeon who says he never wants to get married or have kids. Steel goes to battle with yet another worthy cause, but her good intentions this time fizzle in a sea of Åber-melodrama. After her bruises heal, the physician (unsurprisingly) falls in love with her. She tries to find her mother, visits her father, and conveniently meets a nice young doctor. At this point, Gabbie decides to be a victim no longer. She's seduced by a con man, then robbed and beaten within an inch of her life. To top it off, the church forces her out of the convent with only $500 and two badly tailored dresses to her name. The priest then commits suicide after a painful miscarriage, Gabbie almost dies. ![]() She falls in love with a priest and becomes pregnant (after all, what do priests know about condoms?). But the world has other plans for this girl whose tribulations make those of Job look like chopped liver. To protect herself from a malevolent world, Gabbie decides to become a nun. In what is probably an act of mercy, Gabbie's mother runs off with another man and abandons the girl at a Manhattan convent. Meanwhile, Gabbie's father is a prodigious weakling who drinks to forget his terrible home life, eventually deserting both daughter and wife. But Gabbie's emotional wounds are even worse, for Eloise has persuaded her that everything wrong with the family is her fault. She bruises her kidneys and cuts up her face. She starves her, smashes her dolls, and breaks her ribs every Christmas. Her wealthy mother Eloise feels jealous of her: She abuses Gabbie almost daily for the first decade of her life. Steel (The Ranch, 1997, etc.) actually manages to minimize child abuse in this saccharine take on tragedy.
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