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Book Review By Catie Griffiths
Kiss the Girls by James Patterson

    Kiss the Girls is the second novel James Patterson wrote about the adventures of Alex Cross, a Washington D.C. psychiatrist/detective/family man.
    Cross' niece Naomi aka Scootchie is kidnapped from the Duke college campus. The major suspect is the man who calls himself Casanova, the great lover. Dr. Cross has to go down to North Carolina and investigate the kidnapping and hopefully bring Naomi back to her family.
    In the south Cross hardly feels welcome. However, Cross works alongside the Durham police and even the FBI to try and track down Casanova.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story:
Misc. Murder Plotlets - cooped up in spooky house - character killed during/after sexing
Kind of investigator
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Any non-mystery subplot?
descript. of violence and chases - 20 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20 %
Crime Thriller Yes
Crime plotlets:
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here? - finding a known killer

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 40's-50's
Ethnicity/Race

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
Motive of antagonist - kicks
The antagonists are: - evil doctors
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Genius

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast - Southeast
Forest? Yes
City? Yes
City: - Washington D.C.
Misc setting - prison

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - touching of anatomy - use of artificial tools - descript. of breasts - descript. of other female areas - descript. of male nudity - rape (yeech!) - bestiality (baaa!)
Unusual forms of death - hanging - rough sex - perforation--bullets
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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