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Book Review By Rachael High
West of the Moon by Marianne Willman

Phoebe and Gordan were in love and were going to get married, but she never heard from him again. When her parents died his uncle asked her to come live with him as a housekeeper, but when she gets there she learns he has died and Gordan is the new Lord. He is now terribly disfigured, and she realizes that's why he never came back to marry her.

After seeing a faerie castle and talking to Gordan's aunt, Phoebe becomes suspicious of how Gordan came to be like he is. She finds a letter that tells her Gordan stumbled into a faerie right and he was supposed to die, but because he saved a faerie he was saved. He had to return to the mortal world, hideous, and had seven years to find someone to take his place in the faerie world. Phoebe and Gordan become lovers, finally, and he loves her so much he goes to take his place in the faerie world before the faeries take her too. Phoebe finds him and tries to take his place, but he won't let her.


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Difficult/unusual lover? Yes
How difficult?
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action:
If one lover chases another... - she chases after him

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Sex makes him
Unusual characteristics?

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
Effect of sexing
Unusual characteristics:

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
Misc setting - castle

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related? - 70%
How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 1-2 sex acts
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