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"Basically a girl loses her fiance on their wedding day, she gets stranded in the nambian desertin africa and must survive. She manages, and then finds new love. Then the story comes to a usual Smith ending."
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Plot
Exploring into the wild
Yes
Plotlets:
- stranded
- shipwreck
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- wealthy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental:
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- a little
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
Setting
Africa
Yes
Part of Africa:
- Black Africa
Desert?
Yes
Desert:
- dying of thirst, sunburn
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies
How many deaths?
- hundreds or more
Sex
Yes
Unusual forms of death
- poisoning
- dropped from large heights
- flamed
- drowned
- perforation--bullets
- exploded into bits
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- mostly dialog
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