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| Plot Summary of Joyride |
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"Stella Gold, a teacher from Scottsboro, Pennsylvania, can't remember a time when she wasn't best friends with Emily Martin. Friends since junior high, Stella and Emily's friendship has survived college, continents, death and betrayal. Stella's life changed forever when her 17 year old older sister Blanche committed suicide in her parent's bathroom by slitting her wrists. That same evening Emily, Stella and Blanche were having a sleepover party and revealing secrets. Prior to slashing her wrists, Blanche told the two girls that she had lost her virginity with a group of boys during a drunken high school party. Although Stella thought the incident bordered on rape, Blanche insisted that she gave her consent. In the aftermath of Blanche's suicide, Stella's family life changes forever. Stella's father totally self-destructs and basically checks out on the family, leaving Stella's mother to raise Stella and navigate her grief alone. Emily is a rock during this painful time and it cements Stella and Emily's relationship. While Emily falls in love with Jason and loses her virginity to him on prom night, Stella falls for brainy John, who is too pressured by parental pressure to commit himself to a relationship with Stella. Stella ends up dating handsome jock Warren, who becomes her second choice love interest. As college beckons both girls experience the pain of saying goodbye to their best friend. Although they know nothing will ever be the same again they vow to be best friends forever. Fast forward ten years and Emily is reaching out across the miles from London to Stella. Emily is now a famous fashion designer working on a European line. Stella has never left her hometown where she is a teacher. Emily has earth shattering news - she is getting married to Stella's ex-step-father, Kevin. As Stella races across the world to reach Emily she gathers the courage to tell her best friend the shattering reason why she cannot marry Kevin. "
Sandra Calhoune, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Joyride |
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Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about books by breaking them down into many different literary elements, all of which are searchable (click here).
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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
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Kind of romance:
- rekindling lost love/marriage
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Special relationship with
- sister
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Coping with loss of loved one(s)
Yes
Loss of...
- brother/sisters
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- high school
Loving/sexing?
- guy chasing
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- teacher
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb:
Yes
Eccentric:
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 4 (a fair amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
City?
Yes
City:
- London
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- licking
- actual description of hetero sex
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- descript. of female anat. (the big V)
- descript. of nude males (the big P)
- male homosexuals doing their thing
- rape/molest (yeech!)
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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