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Book Review By Helena
See Jane Run by Joy Fielding

On her way to buy milk and eggs, a woman suddenly forgets who she is. The only clues to her identity are a blood-soaked blue dress and the ten thousand dollars in her coat pockets. She hides the evidence before going to the police, and subsequently a hospital where she learns she is suffering from hysterical amnesia.
Enter the perfect, loving, gentle husband to take her home and take care of her. Something isn't right? Why would a woman with such a perfect life need so badly to get away from it that she would forget even her own daughter? And where is her daughter anyway? And why is she always so tired? The maid will not let her out, and tells all her friends she is visiting her brother in San Fransico. Her husband keeps her under sedatives because she has such a violent history. Is she really the person he says she is? Can she figure it all out before she ends up in a mental hospital?


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 - 20 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20 %
Crime Thriller Yes
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes
Amnesia story? Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Race
Unusual characteristics:

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
Motive of antagonist - power
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - actual description of sex - descript. of breasts - descript. of other female areas - descript. of male nudity - rape (yeech!)
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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