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Ballantine, Nov 2001, 24.95, 384 pp.
ISBN: 0345446976
is America's latest reality television show where twelve contestants are flown to the deserted island of Vassa in the Caribbean. Challenges confront each participant and every three days the audience votes on which person is eliminated. The final survivor wins two million dollars and his or her heart's desire. Dana Kirsten, a last minute substitute, wants to win because she has a ten-year-old daughter living on borrowed time with a doomsday clock ticking away if she fails to obtain experimental treatment in Switzerland.
On the first day of the stay at Vassa, the TV people are all killed by a mysterious ailment. A voice calling itself Control informs the contestants that an Ebola-like virus infects them all. On the day that a contestant is scheduled to be eliminated, a temporary antidote will be administered to the survivors. The winner will gain the ultimate prize, his or her life.
This mind-boggling thriller is a technologically aged version of Agatha Christie's “And Then There Were None”. Jim Brown has written a complex fast-paced story line populated by three-dimensional characters. The audience will root for some of the cast members to escape death and will feel sad when many do not. This novel contains more twists and turns than a meandering river or a mountain road.
Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar
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"This is a great story about a reality television show that goes pyscho. To leave the island with your life you must meet many challenges and pray the audience doesn't vote you off. "
BRENDA KELLY, Resident Scholar
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"On a small Caribbean island the latest 'reality' TV series begins. For Dana Kirsten, winning the $2 million prize could mean saving her sick child's life. But while the nation watches her every move, Dana is entering a contest for her life, and there can only be one survivor.
Vassa Island has been specially rigged with remote-control cameras, a surveillance-satellite system, and the most powerful television transmitter ever created. For a small fee, anyone with a computer can access any of the 638 cameras live - twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week - and vote as the twelve carefully chosen contestants vie with each other, and with the hazards of the island.
But, only fifteen minutes into the opening transission, the show's support crew all die horribly. Then the shocked contestants hear a mystery voice announce: 'This has just become the ultimate reality show.'
From that moment on, they are hurled through a maze of traps and endurance tests. And when the fascinated worldwide viewers daily vote an individual off the island, it isn't just exile... its death."
Melissa Farrell, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 30%
Tone of story
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story:
- 1980's-1999
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller
Yes
General Crime (including known murderer)
Yes
If story PRIMARILY about main chr. being hunted...
- game where people hunted
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- just the right amount
Ethnicity/Race
- White/American
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- mastermind
Motive of antagonist
- revenge
The antagonists are:
- big business leader(s)
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Genius
Physique
- average physique
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- The Caribbean
Island?
Yes
Island:
- stranded
- Caribbean Island
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
How many deaths?
- 8 or more
Unusual forms of death
- biohazard/virus
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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