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Book Review By Dallas
Ladies' Night by Jack Ketchum

Middle class apartment dwellers - a family of three and their babysitter neighbor - are the victims of a bizarre chemical disaster when a truck overturns on the streets of New York one evening. Females are transformed into homicidal monsters, who pursue an unfaithful husband and his innocent son through bars, streets, alleys and their apartment building. Many men, some deserving and some not, are torn to pieces as the story progresses, along with a more than a few monster females on the rampage. Is the mother transformed? Is the baby sitter transformed? Will anyone make it over the GW Bridge to safety? Will the reader be able to see the dark dialogue about our society through the stark and brutally descriptive prose?


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - depressing/sad
Time/era of story:
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Horror Story? Yes
Horror plotlets - the mad stabber chased me!
descript. of violence and chases - 40 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10 %

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

Main Adversary
Identity: - none
Motive of antagonist - insanity
How sensitive is this character?
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
City? Yes
City: - New York

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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