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Plot Summary of Now You See Her
"Paris Sweeney is an artist who has recently recieved a psychic ability. She sees ghosts, knows all the answers to jeopardy, and traffic lights turn green as she nears them, amoung other gifts. She wakes one morning to discovor she has sleepwalked and painted a murder scene in her sleep. She finds out the person is dead. She is attracted to Richard Worth, a millionaire going through a messy divorce. She refuses to start affair with him until his divorce is final but she needs him to hold her and help her combat the terrible cold she feels after psychic painting part of a potrait of a murder that hasn't happened yet. She hopes she can find out who it is before the person dies. She paints a picture of Richards wife and awakes to find wife already dead and he is the prime suspect. Police also focus on Paris when they are tipped about the painting.
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Deborah Stoops, Resident Scholar

"Sweeney is an artist who begins seeing ghosts! When people in her small town begin to talk, she moves to New York City where the ghosts don't talk and people don't know her.

Sweeney is at the gallery where she displays her work when she feels a strange connection to her friend's estranged husband, Richard. Their attraction grows, and when she begins painting murder scenes in her sleep and going into shock afterward, only Richard's body heat can warm her.

After a failed blackmail attempt, Richard's soon to be ex-wife Candra, is murdered. Sweeney realizes a painting she has been working on was of Candra's death. She tries to finish the painting to reveal the killer, but someone involved in the plot recognizes the scene and decides she needs to be stopped. Sweeney's life is endangered, and she must rely on her own instincts and her lover, Richard, to protect her."

Rachael High, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Now You See Her
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Plot
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action: - chased by/chasing kidnapper/killer
If one lover chases another... - he chases after her

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - business executive - wealthy
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - very picky - several sexual encounters
How romantic is this person? - very romantic - somewhat romantic
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - confident - blissful - sensitive
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 - very athletic - average physique

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - artist
Has unusual powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - clairvoyant - can see into the future
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 - less bitchy/arrogant - blissful
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
City? Yes
City: - New York

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment - moderately detailed references to deaths
What % of story is romance related? - 70%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - actual description of sex - descript. of female anatomy (the big B's) - descript. of male nudity (the big P)
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 3-4 sex acts
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