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Plot Summary of Candle Bay
"Twentysomething Amanda Pierce is starting her job as concierge at an exclusive resort on the California coast. What she doesn't know is that the owners are a family of vampires and that a mafia style war is brewing with a rival family. The author has created a hierarchy of villans-from the merely obnoxious to the downright repulsive. "
Eric Hoheisel, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Candle Bay
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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%




Tone of story - scarey (primal ax-wielding fear)
Time/era of story: - present (2000-2010)
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Horror Story? Yes
Horror plotlets - the vampire chased me!

Main Character
Gender - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How much violence does he/she use? - a little
Ethnicity/Race - White/American
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - thief/con artist
Has special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - is very quick - mind reading - can read emotions
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
Motive of antagonist - money/treasure
The antagonists are: - US mafia
Monster of some sort? Yes
Kind of monster: - vampire
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - bulging muscles

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - California
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - sinister, like an X-Files Gomer Pyle
Misc setting - sewers/subways

Style
Part of a series? Yes
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture
How many deaths? - 8 or more
Sex Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - lesbians! - actual description of sex - descript. of other female areas - descript. of male nudity
Unusual forms of death - rough sex - impaled - perforation--bullets
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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