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  <title><![CDATA[A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mary Russell, #2)]]></title>
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  <default_description>In The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King came up with a completely original story that had Sherlock Holmes as one of its principal characters but was in no way part of the Holmes canon.  The focus of that book was a young woman, Mary Russell.  Now in &lt;B&gt;A Monstrous Regiment of Women&lt;/B&gt;, Mary Russell's adventures as a student of the famous detective continue.  A series of  murders claims members of a strange suffrage organization's wealthy young female volunteers, and Mary, with Holmes in the background,  investigates, little knowing what danger she personally faces. &lt;P&gt; Laurie R. King is also the author of the Edgar Award-winning novel A Grave Talent.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1995</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Laurie R. King]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite of the Holmes/Russell series, and one of my favorite books, period.  I've read it innumerable times, and keep coming back to it.  A beautiful blend of coming-of-age, detection, romance, and gritty drama, it gets at the heart of the series.  Mary Russell's friend draws her into wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6733176">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jan 08 15:26:49 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second in the Mary Russell series, and it loses a star for it's lame-o mystery. Mary Russell, now in her early twenties, takes the foreground as her mentor Holmes stays mostly in the background, due to Mary's increasing independence and a rising sexual tension between the two. And again,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42388937">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 04 11:52:31 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 12:18:02 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading the <em>Beekeeper's Apprentice</em>, and I enjoyed this book too, but I felt that I was cheated in the end.. The fact that Mary Childe's husband was the crook...it seemed like it was randomly pulled out a hat. Perhaps the only thing that saved it for me was that her husband didn't kill all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41851570">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1966660">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Historical mystery readers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 14 10:55:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 14 10:55:03 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Second in the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series.  This one picks up six years later as Mary becomes 21 gets her inheritance, and becomes independent.  She has also completed her studies at Oxford and is working on a paper presentation with a professor.<br/><br/>Complications develop as she becom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1966660">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75277860">
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 21 13:09:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 21 13:09:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A monstrous Regiment of Women is the follow up, and indeed it is a hard act to follow, of the Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King. I enjoyed this story but at the same time must admit that the poignancy and enthusiam I felt during the reading of the Beekeeper's Apprentice was missing. I chalk t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75277860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51755582">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 06 18:46:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 06 19:00:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recently reread this for about the fourth time.  I have some (sage? *cough*? well, maybe) advice.  Chew on it slowly.  Personally, I couldn't.  I raced through it at about 100 miles an hour and skipped most of the theological bits the first two times through.  Try not to do that. Or if you have to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51755582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51925011">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed the 1st Mary Russell book (The Bee Keepers Apprentice). This book however wasn't as great. It started out very slow, the plot isn't revealed until at least 100 pages in. And there's too much subtext for a novel. There are times when I'd get totally lost because so much was left unsa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51925011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61187995">
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is more Mary than Russell-Holmes in its content, and most of the time it works. In this story, Mary turns 21, takes possession of her inheritance, and becomes Miss Independence (sometimes a little too stridently but also very believeably). She gets involved in women's suffrage (especially ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61187995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39574565">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Dec 18 16:01:07 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, it took more than a year, but King sucked me back in. I think I needed something to take the taste of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= John R. King" title=" John R. King"> John R. King</a>'s (no relation?) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls" title=" The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls"> The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls</a> out of my mouth; in comparison to that novel, this one is masterful. I enjoyed this much more than the previous book in the seri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39574565">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74199390">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie R. King, was a good read for me. Although I had a little trouble getting into it during the first chapter, ultimately I quite enjoyed it.<br/><br/>The second book in the Mary Russell series (I haven't yet read the first), this book follows the life of Mary ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74199390">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69183283">
    <user id="1801482">
    <name><![CDATA[Tara]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's funny we are having this discussion about this series - this is second book and it's ok, but not my favorite. It's a bit choppy and not as compelling as the first book. Mary, through her friend, gets involved with a group of women that is led by a charismatic, spiritual leader that gives weekly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69183283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34692872">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the Mary Russell series.  The intertwining of Mary's studies, the relationship between Mary and Holmes, and the solving of the case is riveting.<br/>As with the other books by LRK, the attention to detail, and the amount of research that must have gone into the writing of this book , makes t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34692872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65868062">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mary Russell has grown up, finished college and is hard at work as an academic, when she gets embroiled in an interesting case with an enigmatic leader and presumed murdered suffragettes. As always, Sherlock Holmes is nearby to lend a hand when necessary, but it's for Russell to truly cut her teeth ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65868062">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58752106">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting weaving in of OT theology.....and exegesis.      A subtle statement for closer examination of accepted translations of the Bible, and fun to read with it woven into the story as Mary comes a bit more into her own style, strength and applying her studies to daily life.<br/><br/><br/>[c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58752106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53890582">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book, and others from the series, for several reasons.  One, it makes me think, because the language the author uses is sort of old fashioned and uses words I've only seen in GRE and SAT prep materials.  Two, the characters in the story are brilliant and scholarly, which inspires me a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53890582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41475038">
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading the first book in the series, I encouraged my friend who adores the Conan Doyle stories to read it and let me know what she thought; she had been aware of the series, but hadn't read it because she feared it being feminist take on Holmes, and she wasn't interested. I said no! it's not ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41475038">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This second book in the Mary Russell series begins with the romantic question being asked: could Holmes and Russell ever be a couple?  Holmes poses the question in a most unsatisfactory way, and Russell spends the rest of the book trying to figure that out.  This, while she's busy taking on a case t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62300676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is book 2 in the Mary Russell series, about the young woman apprenticed to Sherlock Holmes.<br/>I like the development of her character in this one. She turns 21 and comes into her own. She is not as dependent on Holmes and can work a case pretty well on her own. Not sure how I feel about the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73070925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the series of mysteries about Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.  I have enjoyed all the mystery books I have read by Laurie R King.  Her Kate Martinelli series is good, also.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book in the series that started with A Beekeeper's Apprentice.  I really enjoyed it, but maybe not quite as much as the first one.  It definitely had more of a story arc without all the meandering of the first one, but I actually liked all that meandering.  This was really good th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44819212">more...</a>]]></body>
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