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Plot Summary of Thunder
"Mala Bey, an up and coming jewelry designer, is on her way to Fort Lauderdale to show her jewelry to a guy who could make her career take off when she runs into a horrible, freaky storm. Rain is just pounding down in sheets and Mala is worried that she won't make it as she drives down Alligator Alley when she spots the motorcycle rider. Drenched and anonymous in his dark helmet, Mala is instantly attracted to the cocky motorcyclist who keeps circling her car. Spinning an elaborate fantasy about herself and the mysterious cyclist, Mala imagines him dominating her and bringing her to sexual pleasures like she has never known. Her fantasy abruptly ends when the motorcyclist skids on the rain-slicked pavement and slides into the Everglades, which seem to eat him up...

Mala frantically calls the police and has them search for hours, but no one can find any trace of him. She continues on to Fort Lauderdale, but is drawn back by a mysterious pull the next morning. She feels as if he is calling to her and begging her to help him. He also tells Mala that his name is Laird Jaeger. Mala tries to go in to the Everglades and help him, but, aside from toying with her sexually in a noncorporal form, she can't connect with him. As Mala becomes more and more obsessed with Laird and rescuing him, she tries to get Laird, or, as he now calls himself, Thunder, to leave his crazy dream of rejoining the Native Americans who lived in the 1800s and live his life in the present day. Even though Mala barely knows Laird/Thunder, she knows that she doesn't want to live without him - but he seems perfectly capable of living without her..."

Debbie, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Thunder
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Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%




Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy story on current Earth
Romance Yes
Romance plotlets: - lovers spending a lot of time bickering
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - artist
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - small businessman
Has magical powers? Yes
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a substantial amount
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

Setting
Terrain - Jungle
Earth setting: - 20th century
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - descript of touching personal anatomy - licking - actual description of sex - description of breasts - descript. of private male anat. - descript. of non-breast female anat.
Is this an e-book? Yes
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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