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Plot Summary of Shielder
"Nessa dan Ranul is a Shielder. In the vast galactic world ruled by the horrible Controllers, the Shielders have become their mission to destroy. Now Shielder must live in remote colonies, hidden away from the dark Controllers lest their kind be exterminated. And because of these dire times, weak Shielders cannot be tolerated within the colonies.
Nessa is one such Shielder. Suffering from seizures and a gimpy leg, she has been shunned from her family and her people, kept alive only by her brother, who dearly seeks to protect her. But when a deadly virus fatal only to Shielders begins to spread throughout the colonies, Nessa knows she is the only one who can carry the incubating virus to the faraway colony with the technology to find a cure.
On her trek, she finds herself stranded in space, her tiny vessel unable to funstion. She is picked up by Chase McKnight, a hansdome bounty hunter for the relentless Controllers. Forced to hide her identity as a Shielder, Nessa has no choice but to rely on him to get her to her destination, or as close to it as she can without giving away her colonies or her people.
Chase, a former renowned doctor, has turned to bounty hunting because of another deadly virus, and hides his pain behind a hard exterrior. He has no interest in petty Controller problems, and seeks only those hardened criminals and the one who destroyed his life, for they only deserved the harsh death-sentence handed out by the Controllers. As he finds himself falling in love with his new passenger, Chase struggles to hunt his past as a mysterious air hangs around this little female. "

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Review Analysis of Shielder
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Plot
Time/era of story - Near future
Forbidden/mismatched love? Yes
How mismatched? - loving someone from historic enemy
If one lover chases another... - he chases after her
Fantasy/Magic Yes
Fantasy/Magical Lover Yes
Fantasy World Romance Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - bounty hunter
Age/status: - 40's-50's
How sexual is this person? - somewhat promiscuious
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - confident - blissful - mature - sensitive - a better lover
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 - bulging muscles

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - champion of justice
How sexual is this person? - naive virgin
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
effect of sexing - confused - angry - scared - guilty
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - confident - a better lover - blissful
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
Air? Yes
Air: - warplane
Misc setting - scientific labs

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related? - 80%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - actual description of sex - descript. of female anatomy (the big B's) - descript. of female anatomy (the big V) - descript. of male nudity (the big P)
Part of a series? Yes
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 3-4 sex acts
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