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Review Summaries

"Dr. Joanna Lander is a young female doctor who is seeking to understand the Near-Death Experience. She enlists the aid of a young male doctor, who has found a biochemical means of simulating NDE's and together, they work toward documenting and understanding of an NDE. Because it is difficult to find subjects willing to undergo the experience on a regular basis, it falls more and more upon Joanna to be both observer and observed. With each encounter with an NDE, finds the experience more fearful."
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Plot

Composition of Book
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20%

Tone of book - sensitive (sigh....)
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Religious overtones? Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - doctor
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - natural phenomena
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.

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

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
scientific jargon? (SF only) - some scientific explanation
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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