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Book Review By Steven
Intensity by Dean Koontz

Psychology student Chyna Shepherd visits her best friend Laura Templeton's family's house in Napa Valley, California. Her first night there, she can't sleep. A killer named Edgler Foreman Vess enters the house and kills everyone inside but Chyna. Thinking Laura is alive when she sees Vess put her in the back of his motor home, Chyna attempts to save her friend, and goes in the motor, but discovers that Laura is dead. Before she can escape the motor home, it starts moving, and Chyna is trapped with Vess, and soon discovers that Vess has kept a 16-year-old girl named Ariel in his basement for a year, and Chyna is the only one who can save her.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - scarey (primal ax-wielding fear)
Time/era of story:
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
descript. of violence and chases - 40 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20 %
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
If story PRIMARILY about main chr. being hunted... - hunted by killer/stalker

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

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status:
Motive of antagonist - insanity
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: - California

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies
Unusual forms of death - flamed
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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