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Plot Summary of All That Shines
" The life of a hurt little girl is revailed when her mother is released from jail due to illegal drug sales and the use of drugs. Marcy is forced to move back in with her mother and finds that her mother is even more distant. Marcy can also remember the years of physical and mental abuse she had went through when she was younger. And through the hard times, her best friend was there for her. Pierre. But after his mother was diagnosed with cancer, Pierre, the only person that Marcy trusted, was gone. Pierre had moved from the classy upstate town of New York to the lowlands of South America. Now Marcy felt even more alone. Years later Marcy's mother, a Julianne Moore type, went into a state of mind that she couldn't live with, and left her daughter with her grandfather, Al Pacino type, and grandmother, Segourney Weaver type. Now Marcy would learn to abide by the rules of even more classier living. Her grandfather, a stockbroker, was a man of self rightousness and greed. Marcy grew older and became something she never thought possible. A model. After meeting a man she thought she had never met, he led her to her new life. She also grew to love her grandfather and he now was the man she trusted in. But one day when two law firm agents show up everything changes. And this is when Marcy meets the man of her dreams. Jake, George Clooney type. They seem to have differences but Jake becomes over whelmed by Marcy's beauty and charisma. But what Marcy doesn't know is that Jake is the man who will, and soon take both of the men she loves away from her. This book is very suspecful and reaches into the world of a girl's semi brilliant world."
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Plot
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Struggling with whom? - Mom
If one lover chases another... - they alternate
Children/Pregnancy Yes
Family focus? Yes
Family, hating Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - private investigator
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - somewhat promiscuious
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - confident
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - model
How sexual is this person? - naive virgin
How romantic is this person? - sly seducer
effect of sexing - confused
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - France
City? Yes
City: - New York - wealthy
Misc setting - Fancy Mansion

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
What % of story is romance related? - 50%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - licking
Focus of story - many multiple characters
Consequences of sex - pregnancy
How much dialog - little dialog
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