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Plot Summary of The Last Year of Being Single
" Sarah Giles is a smart, quirky, young professional battling against love and lust and torn between two seperate relationships. After five years of dating, Paul, the man whom she loves but not too emotionally or sexually, she begins to question whether or not he is the "one for her". At a lunch meeting with one of her collegues, the sexy and smart womanizer, John Wayne (yes a bit cliche but it works in this case) she begins to fantasize whether her life could turn out differently if she only had the nerve to explore a relationship with someone like Mr. Wayne.

Due to unfortunate circumstances that have happened in years past, Sarah grows distant from Paul and eventually begins to feel quite a bit of resentment towards him. Luckily, John is there to give her what Paul cannot, but Sarah does not know if John is what she wants either. Trying to keep both relationships secret, Sarah literally begins to drive herself crazy. After Paul pops the big question to her, Sarah finds herself even more bewildered and torn then ever before.

Author Sarah Tucker provides readers with an exciting a highly sexually charged novel. Although some parts tend to become more of a porno magazine then a chick read, I found for the most part that her choice in diction was revolutionary and entralling. It is a definite summer must-read if you like the Bridgette Jones type. "

lauren broderick, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of The Last Year of Being Single
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Plot
Tone of book? - humorous
Time/era of story - present (2000-2010)
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance: - love triangle/polygon
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - business executive
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed - emotionally unstable
Ethnicity/Nationality - British
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - business executive
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 ()
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - use of artificial tools - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of hetero sex - descript. of female anat. (the big B's) - descript. of nude males (the big P)
Lot of foul language? Yes
Unusual Style: - written like a journal/diary/letters
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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