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Book Review By Susan O'Fearna
Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint

What happens when a girl who can paint beings in to being finds out that her mentor feeds on her numena? Read M&D and visit Newford. Meet Izzy and Kathy and Jilly & the numena as well as Rushkin.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book - very upbeat -
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy world/fantasy past
Coming of age Yes
Youngster becomes - guardian of justice
Romance Yes
Romance plotlets: - two lovers coping with tough mission -
Magical Beings/Mental/Magical/Powers Yes
Training/Apprent. Yes
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - coping with mental/magical powers
Kind of series -
Story involving clones/duplicates? - bad clones/duplicates
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Clones Yes

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

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 60's-90's
Profession/status:
Has magical powers? Yes
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
Earth setting: - 20th century
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: -
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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