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Plot Summary of A Brother's Price
"Jerin is the oldest of 4 boys, one of the precious male progeny in a huge brood of female children that makes up the Whistler clan. He is coming of age soon, which means that he will need to be married off for a "brother's price" so his sisters can afford to buy a husband to father the next generation. He knows full well of his fate but can't help but wish for more. Jerin has never seen any females besides his relatives so he is surprised to save a half-dead traveler only to discover that she's a princess! And then to have a princess fall in love with him!

Jerin soon finds himself falling in love with the visiting royalty too, despite the impossibility of the match. But in saving the princess, Jerin has unknowingly stuck himself in the middle of a political intrigue that has been brewing for years, if not generations."

Eugenia Huang, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of A Brother's Price
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Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 30%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%




Tone of book - sensitive (sigh....)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy world/fantasy past
Romance Yes
Romance plotlets: - love among disparate social classes
Political power play Yes
Political plotlets - factions fight within govt for control
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Family relations Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - homemaker
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - mastermind
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 - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Setting
Terrain - Forests
Earth setting: - 19th century
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a primitive/fantasy society
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Planet outside solar system? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - some scientific explanation
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - descript of touching personal anatomy - licking - orgies - impregnation/reproduction - major character becomes a sex slave - description of breasts - descript. of private male anat. - rape/molest (yeech!)
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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