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Plot Summary of Forbidden Love
"Megan Kinkead is a lonely orphan desperate for the attention of her guardian, Justin Brant. She finally gets it when, at the age of 17, she walks in on Justin naked in the bath. She is no longer the child he remembers, and sparks immediately fly between the two of them. They become involved and fall in love. Everything is going wonderfully, until Justin drops a bombshell on Megan: He's already married to another woman.
Megan is very upset by this, although she reluctantly continues her relationship with Justin. When she finds out that she is carrying his child, she decides that she must find a respectable man to marry. She does not tell Justin about the child, and he comes to despise him for leaving him in search of another man. When he finds out about the child, he is furious. He abducts Megan and divorces his fridgid wife in order to marry her. He is very cruel to Megan, and his cruelty culminates when he gets physically violent with her. She runs from him, and accidentally falls off of a ledge in her escape. She goes into pre-mature labor, and loses the baby.
Megan and Justin are both devistated by the loss of their child, but Megan won't allow Justin to come near her. He finally sees how unfair he's been, and how much it has already cost him. Now he must try to make things right before he loses Megan, the one thing he truely can't live without"

Jess, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Forbidden Love
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Plot
Time/era of story - 18th century
Abusive: - treated like a servant
Difficult/unusual lover? Yes
Children/Pregnancy Yes
Children/Pregnancy: - Get accidently pregnant
Who's in charge? - he is
Abusive lover? Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - Prince/Nobleman/King
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - several sexual encounters
How romantic is this person? - not very romantic
Sex makes him - confused - more demanding - guilty
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - blissful
Sex has bad effect on him Yes
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - very athletic

Main Female Character
Age/status: - a teen
How sexual is this person? - naive virgin
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
effect of sexing - confused - guilty
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - blissful
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
Mountains/Cliffs Yes
Mountains: - falling off
Misc setting - Fancy Mansion

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related? - 90%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - impregnation/reproduction - rape/molest (yeech!)
Focus of story - equally on him and her
Consequences of sex - pregnancy
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 3-4 sex acts
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