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Book Review By Amy
Carolina Moon by Nora Roberts

Victoria ‘Tory' Bodeen was suppose to go out and meet her best friend Hope Lavelle down in the marshes that night. Her father, however, decided to beat her again, and Tory was too sore to make it down there. About twenty years later Tory decides to return to the spot where Hope was killed to try and find out what had happened to her.
Tory has a gift that is able to help her; she is able to read people's minds, a psychic. While trying to find out who had killed her best friend she befriends Hope's brother Cade. Cade is one of the few people that she has met that isn't freaked out by her ability to look in to other people's minds.
Finding Hope's killer isn't the only thing that is keeping Tory busy, her father is trying to make her pay for leaving him shortly after the murder had happened. While trying to evade her father, catch a murder and keep her shop running, Tory is able to find love again Cade Lavelle.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story:
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
descript. of violence and chases - 50 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10 %
Crime Thriller Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here? - rapist
If story PRIMARILY about main chr. being hunted... - hunted by killer/stalker
Is Romance a MAJOR (25%+) part of story? Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's
Has special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
Ethnicity/Race

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
Eccentric: Yes
Motive of antagonist - jealousy
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Southeast
Farm/Ranch? Yes
Farm/Ranch: - farm - lots of descript of crop raising
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex - rape (yeech!)
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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