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Time for Alexander - Jennifer Macaire Book Review

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"Ashley, time traveling journalist, goes back to interview Alexander the Great. He thinks she's Persephone, goddess of the dead, and kidnaps her; now she's stranded in a time 3,000 years removed from her own!"
Jennifer Macaire, Resident Jennifer Macaire Scholar


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Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%




Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - alternate history
Time Travel: - largely backwards/past
Romance Yes
Romance plotlets: - two lovers coping with tough mission
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Time Travel story? Yes
Story largely takes place in - Really long ago

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - journalist
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - Prince/Nobleman/King
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a little/some
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant

Setting
Terrain - Desert - Mountains
Earth setting: - general past
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only - descript of kissing
Is this an e-book? Yes
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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