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Plot Summary of The Lover
"Anne Aines is a spinster. She pays 1000 pounds to loose her virginity to Micheal Des Anges. He was a prostitute in London, but after being scarred in a fire, no one will touch him. After a wild night, they agree to become lovers for a month. His uncle has been tormenting and torturing him since he was a boy by turning the foods he loves into something that makes him sick. The only thing his uncle didn't contaminate is sex with women, which is why he became the greatest protitute in London and France. Even that was taken away when he was scarred. He knows that by seeing Anne, his uncle will try to kill her. His last love was tortured and the trama caused her to commit suicide. He doesn't want to fall in love with her, but after he does he must protect her while trapping his uncle. Not for the faint of heart. Graphic sex including a hot scene with a banana and chocolate. "
Deborah Stoops, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of The Lover
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Plot
Time/era of story - Victorian england
Difficult/unusual lover? Yes
How difficult? - wild lover - Beauty and the beast
Virgin, dramatically devirginized Yes
If one lover chases another... - they alternate
Sex/Erotic story, Primarily Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - prostitute
Eccentric/mental: Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed - emotionally unstable
How sexual is this person? - over 1,000,000 served
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - blissful
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Female Character
Profession/status: - wealthy
How sexual is this person? - naive virgin
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - confident - a better lover - blissful
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
City? Yes
City: - London - dangerous

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
What % of story is romance related? - 90%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - use of artificial tools - actual description of sex - descript. of female anatomy (the big B's) - descript. of female anatomy (the big V) - descript. of male nudity (the big P)
Weird Victorian/Shakespearean English? Yes
Part of a series? Yes
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 5-9 sex acts
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