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"Lore van der Oest is from a wealthy family and trained as an engineer to manage futuristic environmental restoration and waste management projects. She has only one problem, she's been kidnapped and then escaped after killing one of her captors. She's found refuge in underground society with a woman named Spanner who supports herself with identity theft projects but can't complain since it's given her freedom from the bad guys who must be looking for her.
Lore falls in love with Spanner. She gets a job working in a waste water treatment plant. She accepts her change in status, except Spanner uses a drug and they take part in sex orgies for more money.
Meanwhile, management is cheating at the waste water treatment plant and creating a situation dangerous for Lore, new management has begun to notice her.
Lore moves out and finds friends who help her establish a life independent from Spanner and also finds a counselor friend. When the situation at work escalates to a point for nearly blowing up the factory, Lore saves the day with the help of a co-worker confidant.
When Lore's family rediscovers her, she has to decide whether she will return to her old life. She begins to remember more of what happened during the kidnapping and gradually suspects who set her up and why. Lore confronts her enemy, finds love and realizes the truth about her family.
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Sheri Fresonke Harper, 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 - 10%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%
Tone of book
- sensitive (sigh....)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Romance
Yes
Romance plotlets:
- love slave!!!!
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- engineer
Age:
- 20's-30's
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Genius
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- bureaucrat
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Genius (really!)
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Terrain
- Domed/Underground City
Earth setting:
- near future (later in 21st century)
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- a moderate amount of scientific explanation
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- descript of touching personal anatomy
- licking
- use of artificial tools
- orgies
- major character becomes a sex slave
- actual description of sex
- lesbians!
- description of breasts
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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