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"One week before her sixteenth birthday, Lotte Kahs is kidnapped by a figure she calls the fiend—a dangerous and beguiling stranger with ambiguous unnaturalness both subtle and terrifying. To escape her conflicting feelings created by her abductor's frightful cruelty and equally disturbing affection, Lotte concentrates on memories of what moved her—music and the emotions awakened while dancing, sources of motivation connecting her to youth as she prepares for what's to come: the struggle between the fiend and herself to understand one another through harrowing acts of betrayal and unforgettable discoveries of self, necessity, desire, and each other.
The Teaching Emotion's simultaneous suspension of and demand for reality combined with incidents from Lotte's past, the poignant recall of conversation, equivocal internal dialogue, and hypnotic rhythm results in a complex and jarring narrative that explores headlong a distressing paradox—the ache for and denial of something more inexplicable than oneself."
Meg Holle, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Struggle over
- vague finding self/purpose in life (i.e. no plot to book)
- nature of existence (heavy philosophy)
Crime & Police story
Yes
Story of
- kidnapping
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- deluded
- emotionally unstable
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- killer
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb:
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
- deluded
- wild
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- Midwest
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Canada
Forest?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- licking
- male homosexuals doing their thing
- rape/molest (yeech!)
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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