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Book Review By Kimberly Sternes
Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon

Claire Randall is on a honeymoon with her husband Frank, when she is steps through a stone hedge and is sent back to Scotland during the 18th Century. Claire finds herself in the middle of a scurmish and mets a gallant young warrior named Jamie Fraser. Claire and Jamie form the beginning of a friendship, when they are forced to marry. Eventually they fall in love.


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Marriage/Married Yes
Marriage subplot:
Time Travel Yes
Type of time travel - present to past

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
Profession/status:
Effect of sexing

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
Mountains/Cliffs Yes
Mountains: - climbing on trails
Misc setting - prison - fort/military installation - sewers/subways - castle

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to torture
What % of story is romance related? - 70%
How explicit is the sex? - touching of anatomy - licking - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - Vagia talk - spanking that woman dislikes - rape/molest (yeech!)
Focus of story - Her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 5-9 sex acts
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