The Tar-Aiym Krang - Flinx of the Commonwealth 2
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Plot Summary of The Tar-Aiym Krang - Flinx of the Commonwealth 2

"Book 2 of Pip and Flinx. Flinx now makes a living as a street performer. When he stumbles on a murder and gets a star map, the adventure begins. He is hired by two people to be a guide and ends up at the house of a very wealthly man, only to find that the two people were looking for the map and want Malaika to bankrole an expedition to the world shown on the map. What they expect to find is artifacts of a dead race, not a powerful weapon.

Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout.

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Ed Phillips, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of The Tar-Aiym Krang - Flinx of the Commonwealth 2

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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 60%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10%

Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Tech./$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - magical artifact
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - performer
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human freighter/transport
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a futuristic society - empty, or nearly empty world
Planet outside solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a significant amount of technical jargon
How much dialogue? - significantly more descript than dialog

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