Point of View

Half-Blown Rose is mostly told in the third-person limited point-of-view following Vincent Wilde. While this means that the reader gets close to her thoughts, it also allows the author to jump around between the past and present depending on what matters to Vincent. For example, when Vincent is spending time with Loup, she will also think about previous memories with Cillian. She also frequently describes Loup in extreme detail, showing how much her life has become intertwined with his. Part Three, in particular, uses this point-of-view to keep the reader grounded in Vincent’s emotional conflict. This is because the story’s main focused is on what she must overcome personally, and the relationship she has between Cillian and Loup are secondary to the things she overcomes internally.

However, there is some deviation on the point-of-view. Part One has excerpts from Cillian’s fictionalized autobiography...