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| Plot Summary of Carolina Moon |
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"Years ago, Tori saw her best friend's dead body in her mind before Faith's body was found. People wondered how she knew, and Faith's family wanted to blame her. Tori's own father had been attempting to beat her visions out of her for years, and her life became more severe following Faith's death. Now, Tori has moved back to the town where she spent much of her childhood. And she discovers that girls who would be the same age as Faith at various stages during her life have been brutally murdered over the course of the years. All the while, Tori is trying to deal with her memories, her "sight", her feelings for Faith's brother Cade, and the bitterness of Faith's twin sister."
Sarrah, Resident Scholar
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"Victoria ‘Tory' Bodeen was suppose to go out and meet her best friend Hope Lavelle down in the marshes that night. Her father, however, decided to beat her again, and Tory was too sore to make it down there. About twenty years later Tory decides to return to the spot where Hope was killed to try and find out what had happened to her.
Tory has a gift that is able to help her; she is able to read people's minds, a psychic. While trying to find out who had killed her best friend she befriends Hope's brother Cade. Cade is one of the few people that she has met that isn't freaked out by her ability to look in to other people's minds.
Finding Hope's killer isn't the only thing that is keeping Tory busy, her father is trying to make her pay for leaving him shortly after the murder had happened. While trying to evade her father, catch a murder and keep her shop running, Tory is able to find love again Cade Lavelle.
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Amy, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Carolina Moon |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 25%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 35%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10%
Tone of story
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
How difficult to spot villain?
- Very difficult--no foreshadowing/clues
Time/era of story:
- present (2000-2010)
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 60%
Special suspect?
- investigator him/herself
Misc. Murder Plotlets
- character killed during/after sexing
- local police w/ IQ of a houseplant
- Proving innocence of very obvious suspect
Kind of investigator
- psychic investigator
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Any non-mystery subplot?
- feelings towards lover
Crime Thriller
Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown)
Yes
General Crime (including known murderer)
Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here?
- rapist
If story PRIMARILY about main chr. being hunted...
- hunted by killer/stalker
Is Romance a MAJOR (25%+) part of story?
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- small businessman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- can read emotions
- mind reading
- clairvoyant
Eccentric/Mental:
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- a little
- just the right amount
Ethnicity/Race
- White/American
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- politician/elected ruler
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- deluded
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
- throughout most of the book.
Motive of antagonist
- revenge
- jealousy
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
- Deep South
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- farm
- lots of descript of crop raising
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
- dumb rednecks, like Gomer Pyle
- hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
- sinister, like an X-Files Gomer Pyle
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
- rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
How many deaths?
- 2
- 5-7
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- actual description of sex
- rape (yeech!)
Amount of dialog
- significantly more dialog than descript
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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