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Book Review By Cheryl Brown
Blue Moon by Jill Marie Landis

Olivia is an innocent 19 year old girl. While traveling down the Ohio river in a flatboat, her family is stopped and threatened by river pirates. The pirates kidnap Olivia and sell her to Darcy Lankanal,a New Orleans brothel owner. Darcy keeps her captive for a year before Oliva manages to escape. Now on the run to find her family she is injured while trying to make her way through an Illinois swamp.

Reclusive Noah LeCroix finds Oliva injured in the swamp, near his home high up in the trees. Noah had withdrawn into the swamp to live after a flatboat accident removed one of his eyes and left him scarred. He had never been close to or been with a women before, and his feeling for Olivia grew with each passing day that he nursed her back to health.

As Noah and Olivia begin to fall in love, they have to overcome the past, their own feelings of unworthiness, and to face the danger that threatens Olivia still.


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Difficult/unusual lover? Yes
How difficult?
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action:

Main Male Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
If he's not white he must be... - indian
Unusual characteristics?

Main Female Character
Age/status: - a teen
Effect of sexing

Setting
Forest Yes
Farm/Ranch? Yes
Farm/Ranch: - farm

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
What % of story is romance related? - 90%
How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 3-4 sex acts
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