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Plot Summary of Kingdom Wink
"A young girl's life continues to fall silently apart despite her best efforts to ignore it. On the surface, she appears normal and harmless, but delving deeper reveals deceit, intolerance and a disturbingly vicious streak. Kingdom Wink is an unusual, insightful and, at times, highly emotional novel written through a strange perspective where much is told through implication rather than graphic description, where the narrator cannot entirely be trusted and nothing is quite as it seems.

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Clara-jane Hoare, Resident Scholar




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Review Analysis of Kingdom Wink
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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Family, struggle with Yes
Struggle with: - Father (or standin) - Mother (or standin)
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Struggle over - vague finding self/purpose in life (i.e. no plot to book)
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Druggie/Wino problems? - alcohol

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - unemployed
Age: - a teen
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed - deluded
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - society

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 ()
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
The Americas (not US): Yes
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
Misc setting - moving train

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Is this an e-book? Yes
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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