Point of View

The point of view of Reckless Girls alternates between first-person and third person limited. In the narrative present, the text is written though Lux’s lens. The author chooses to employ this point of view in the narrative present in order to center the novel on Lux’s experiences. While she is on the island with her boyfriend, Nico, new friends, Amma and Brittany, and the strangers Eliza and Jake, the lens allows the reader to empathize with her personal experience. The narrator’s anomalous past, caring for her sick mother and dropping out of college, inform how she interacts with the other characters. If the reader did not have access to Lux’s internal thoughts and emotions the duality in her character would have read as a narrative hole rather than the biproduct of her past. Lux seems “tough” and “steely” at times and...