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Plot Summary of Potent Pleasures
"When Charlotte has a life altering indiscresion at the Cyprian's Ball, she turns away from all hope of marriage and happiness because she is "ruined" and seeks a life of solitude with her painting, until one day the man from so long ago appears at a ball in her honor! Thinking that perhaps the world will right itself, she approaches him, but Alexander Foakes, Duke of Sheffield and Downes, has no idea who she is! Despite the methods she takes to proect her heart from being broken again, Charlotte finds herself falling madly in love with Alexander, and wondering how long she can keep the secret before it threatens to destroy their love."
Meredith Griffin, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Potent Pleasures
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Plot
Virgin, dramatically devirginized Yes
If one lover chases another... - he chases after her
Children/Pregnancy Yes
Children/Pregnancy: - Get accidently pregnant - brat children need muzzling

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - Prince/Nobleman/King
How sexual is this person? - several sexual encounters
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
Sex makes him - confused - angry - guilty
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - less bitchy/arrogant - blissful - sensitive
Sex has bad effect on him Yes
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - wealthy
How sexual is this person? - frigid
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
effect of sexing - confused - unhappy for sexing the guy - guilty
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - a better lover - blissful - mature
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
City? Yes
City: - London
Misc setting - Fancy Mansion - castle

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
What % of story is romance related? - 90%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - descript. of female anatomy (the big B's) - descript. of female anatomy (the big V) - descript. of male nudity (the big P)
Part of a series? Yes
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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