LITERATURE ANALYSIS #1

1. The book Midnight Bride by Susan Carroll is about a curse and a long tradition of  enemies. The Book starts off with the lead character Valentine StLeger who is the town Doctor with a special gift to take away the patients pain and replace it with numbness. though most thought it was a great gift but others that knew him like the other Main character Kate FitzLeger strongly disapproved of Val using his gift because when he uses his gift the others pain goes to him. And plus it makes his bad leg worse then what it was. There is a Legend in the StLeger family and the legend states that all StLeger Men will be Chosen a Bride by their family Bridefinder and those who disobey the Bridefinders and chose their own Bride, the Bride/ couple shall have a curse upon their Marriage. And there Bridefinder happens to be Kate's adopted mother (who she finds out later that it's her real birth mother) Elfreda FitzLeger and she told Val that he doesn't have a bride. Kate is turning 21 when she expresses her love for Val to him and he turns her down because of the curse so she goes and steals/ borrow a family sorcerer ghost's spell book and cast a love spell on Val. That same night the StLeger's enemy Rafe Mortmain shows up on Vals door step to give him back a powerful evil stone that he stole to Val. While Val has the stone his leg is cured and his love and passion for Kate grew strong and possessive the complete opposite of  what he is, he is willing to kill, to have Kate. so Kate thinking that her spelled worked and went terribly wrong at the same time find out that she Casted a love spell on Vals cousin Victor StLeger too which happen to just decide to Love her instead of Victor's chosen Bride Mollie who is plain. So Kate is so upset that she casted a spell on them and tried to reverse the spell right before Val would force her to run away with him, but it did nothing. Victor tried stoping Val in taking Kate but then Val tried killing him with his sword/ Cain  and ended up accidentally stabing Kate in the arm and at that point he gave up the crystal and fell very sick almost dying until Kate figured out that she needed to Find Rafe which is her father and have him willingly take back his demons that were in Val which he did Val lives and then Kates Mother announces that Kate was Vals original chosen Bride and they live happily ever after. i believe the Era the book is going for is the mid 1700-1800
2. The theme of Midnight Bride is a moving tale about fighting for what you want, but at the same time accepting what you can’t have. Each of the main characters grows and learns something about themselves as the story goes. Each learns what is really important in life and how to let go of the past.
3. I believe the Authors tone was serious, passionate, and mysterious, like the paranormal parts of it gives off a Erie feeling, the serious part about it is finding happiness, and the passion part would be from the characters. 
4. 1.) In the beginning of the book the author uses flashbacks when Val remembered the first day he met Kate. 2.) The author uses diction to let the reader know the era and country the novel takes place. 3.) The author uses ambiguity with the StLeger Legend which stops Val's happiness of being married. 4.) the author uses foil when the ghost sorcerer who happens to be Val's grandfather Perspero. 5.) Kate would be considered a stock character. 6.) the whole novel has connotation characters. 7.) the point of view of the story jumps around to Kate, Val, Rafe, and Pospero. 8.) when Elfreda the bridefinder announces that Val will never have a bride there was a tragedy through the family because he could never love someone like that ever! 9.) the climax of the Novel was when everyone found out that the stone was causing his behavior and sickness. 10.) the Author does a great job of imagery, as i was reading the novel i could picture every little detail like it was a movie going on while i read.