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Plot Summary of Catch a Falling Star
"Fifty years after the Roswell crash, terminal patients are being mysteriously cured . . . Robert Clark has to find out why before it's too late for his dying wife. Can the mysterious figure he sees leaving the hospital one night give him the answer? The search begins, but someone doesn't want the secret discovered.

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Cheryl L. Daniel, Resident Scholar




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Review Analysis of Catch a Falling Star
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Plot
Tone of book - very upbeat
Tech./$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - cure/disease/bioweapon
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - scholar
Age: - 40's-50's
Has magical/special powers? Yes
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Has magical powers? Yes
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
Terrain - Desert

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a moderate amount of scientific explanation
How much dialogue? - significantly more descript than dialog
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