I do wonder if Forest feels that Rowan's pushing Ginty into competition is partly justified because Ginty's reluctance to take part is not real: it's part of the Unityesque attitudes she's currently affecting.
I'd certainly read it that way - and the fact that we're in Ginty's point of view at the end of the chapter emphasises it. Forest explicitly says that Ginty's manufactured her romantic secret terror of the sea, and although that doesn't make Rowan's behaviour less bossy, I don't feel that Forest is encouraging readers to blame Rowan and side with Ginty.
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Date: 2014-07-27 02:30 pm (UTC)I'd certainly read it that way - and the fact that we're in Ginty's point of view at the end of the chapter emphasises it. Forest explicitly says that Ginty's manufactured her romantic secret terror of the sea, and although that doesn't make Rowan's behaviour less bossy, I don't feel that Forest is encouraging readers to blame Rowan and side with Ginty.