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"Lauren Kline is a resident working at San Francisco Memorial Hospital when she is involved in a devastating car accident. Deemed brain dead by the doctors at the hospital, Lauren is operated on and goes into a deep coma. There is virtually no hope that Lauren will emerge from this coma or return to the vibrant, young woman she was before the accident. Six months have passed since the accident and Lauren's mother has rented out her apartment to a young architect named Arthur. Arthur gets the shock of his life when he sees a beautiful young woman huddled up in his closet. Arthur thinks the young woman named Lauren is crazy when she tells him that her body is lying across town in a coma at San Francisco Memorial hospital while her spirit is in her old apartment. Lauren tells Arthur that he is the only person in the last six months who has been able to see or hear her. When Arthur goes to the hospital to verify Lauren's story he is shocked to see a young woman who looks exactly like her in a deep coma. Against his better instincts, Arthur is forced to believe that Lauren is telling the truth. As Lauren and Arthur develop a strong romantic bond they must race against time to stop the doctors at the hospital from removing Lauren from life support. "
Sandra Calhoune, Resident Scholar
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"The setting is mid-town New York where a doctor is envolved in a tragic car accident and is fatally injured but survives, not knowing that her apartment while soon be haunted by her ghost a bing drinker moves in on a rental bases and later is known that the doctor is a female who is on life support that will eventually be taken off and will die, So the man travels all around trying to find which hospital she is located in and does but the nurse is painfully mean and tells him to leave there after this incident the sister of the doctor arrives and the man gets to talk with the sister forthcoming the acknowledgemtent of the ventalator. Well he tries to convince the sister to not taking her off of the ventalator the ghost of the doctor tries to figure out a way to putting herself back into her own body."
Amber R. Bloyd, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- upbeat
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Kind of romance:
- GENERAL--no other subplots apply
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Religion theme?
Yes
Religion theme:
- musings from the afterlife
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Has magical powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- teleportation
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 7 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- wealthy
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- scientific labs
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog
- mostly dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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