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"KILLING ME SOFTLY was published in 1999.
Alice and Adam experience the love at first sight syndrome. Alice, a scientist working for a pharmaceutical firm, abandons her boyfriend Jake, her friends and her previous life in order to live with Adam. She will little by little learn to understand Adam, an climber who took part in the Chungawat dramatic expedition, two years before.
Their sex life is violent, Adam being a S&M addict, but Alice is too obsessed by her boyfriend to notice that things could ever go wrong between them. Two months later, they're married. Alice starts then to remark strange things around them : they receive anonymous letters, Adam doesn't talk about his precedent girlfriends and his love for her is more an obsession than a real feeling. She begins to lie to him in order to make her own investigation about his past.
She'll discover that most of Adam's former girlfriends have disappeared or even died, like Françoise, a member of the Chungawat expedition that ended up with five casualties. Is it possible that Adam is a psycho who murders the women who abandon him ? It sounds completely ridiculous until the day she discovers that Adam is the author of certain of the anonymous letters they have received. And Adam starts to become suspicious, and more and more violent in bed."
Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- depressed
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Kind of romance:
- late discovery that lover does bad
Crime & Police story
Yes
Story of
- stalked by someone with romantic feelings
Kind of sex:
- really kinky sex!!!!
Taboo sex story?
Yes
Lover is
- a criminal (possibly)
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb:
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
- wild
- mentally ill
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Forest?
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- London
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- use of artificial tools
- actual description of hetero sex
- rape/molest (yeech!)
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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