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"Emily is a young farm girl on an island named Serein. A young man from the distant future is magically placed in her village by Meridian, a man who can control the threads of time to a limited extent. The young man and Emily meet at a dance and fall in love. They then, go on a walk and consummmate their marriage. Emily invites the young man to her birthday the next day. When he doesn't show up, she feels betrayed, but really Meridian had moved him back to his real time, where the young man searches to find a way to see her again.
Emily runs away from home and becomes first a prostitute, and then Rhapsody, a Singer who can heal through her songs. When a powerful man who remembers what she was like as a prostitute wants her, she runs away again this time trying to escape the mans allies, and mercenaries. While running through the streets, she runs into The Brother, an assassin who never misses his mark, and his best friend, a giant firbolg. She adopts them and inadvertly changes the Brother's name in the process. They escape, and the two men take her with them to travel the earth for hundreds of years.
When they again see light they are changed, each with a power over one of the elements. They find themselves on the other side of the world, in a time a thousand years after their own, where people speak a language much changed from their own. In an attempt to join the culture, Rhapsody finds heerself spending time with a leader of a religion. During which, she learns that her home island, Serein, was destroyed by a hidious fire. Then she visits a duke, who her that many children had been kidnapped recently; so, with her Firbolg friends, she attempts to find the children before moving on to the Firbolg lands, where the Brother intends to become king of the Firbolg."
olivia, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 30%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20%
Tone of book
- very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- fantasy world/fantasy past
Time Travel:
- largely forwards/future
Romance
Yes
Romance plotlets:
- destined love (dream or prediction)
Inner Struggle
Yes
Plotlet:
- coping with mental/magical powers
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Time Travel story?
Yes
Story largely takes place in
- Really long ago
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- musician
Age:
- long lived adults
Has magical/special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- fire/lightning/weather cntrl
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- magical being
Profession/status:
- mage/magician
Has magical powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- mind control
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Setting
Terrain
- Mountains
Earth setting:
- during "Tolkien" (fairytime) times
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- descript of touching personal anatomy
- licking
- orgies
- actual description of sex
- description of breasts
- descript. of private male anat.
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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