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Book Review By Anita Doran
The Last Cheerleader by Meg O'Brien

A successful L.A. literary agent finds her ex-husband and her best-selling author killed. An old school friend shows up who is suspicious of the medical experiments her husband is performing on humans. Our character is faced with many suspicious characters as she tries to resolve the murders of her writers.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story:
Medical Thriller Yes
Medical Plotlets:
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
descript. of violence and chases - 10 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 80 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 0 %
Crime Thriller Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - California
City? Yes
City: - Los Angeles

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - use of artificial tools
Unusual forms of death - impaled
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - significantly more dialog than descript
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