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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm.  This is an interesting book.  It is, as the name implies, very luxe.  The gown descriptions are sumptuous, and all the characters are gorgeous, with thick curling hair and full pouty lips.  However, I had a hard time figuring out who to root for, as it were.  You don't really get deep insight...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12858573">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would maybe go as high as a 2.5 for this, but really no higher (sorry Ashley and Jenn).<br/><u>The Luxe</u> is about turn of the century New York socialites falling in love and misbehaving.  New York's darling debutant, Elizabeth Holland is poised to marry one of the most eligible (and debaucherous) bac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50918510">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you didn't think the nineteenth century was full of drama then think again.  Life in New York in 1899 was very eventful.  At least it was for the very wealthy.  Elizabeth Holland has been a perfect daughter her entire nineteen years of life.  She has been groomed for years to be perfect - to talk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11253139">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another Christmas gift, and one I wanted to read very much when it first came out, but shied away from somewhat after reading several reviews comparing it to the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22188.Gossip_Girl_Gossip_Girl_Book_1_" title="Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, Book 1) by Cecily von Ziegesar">Gossip Girl</a> series and stating that the writing left rather a lot to be desired. Oh, I thought sadly. That's too bad. It looked better tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42468545">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Julie M. Prince for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>One of the elite, one of the daughters of New York society, is dead. <br/><br/>In life, the lovely and fair Elizabeth Holland is everything a young, turn-of-the-century girl of her position ought to be. But, it's not easy to be proper and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21685810">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, Godbersen is no Edith Wharton, but who is? I went into this book expecting it to read like historical fiction with a bit of scandalous intrigue, but got Gossip Girl in a Victorian setting instead.  <br/><br/>Godbersen mentions clothing and internal decoration about a thousand times too many ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73886303">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful Elizabeth Holland, lovely, prim, proper and of course a lady. Too bad she is dead. The story opens to a dreary day in late 19th century New York at the funeral of Miss Elizabeth Holland, the exact day in which she was to be wed.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Then time flashes back and we are take...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27148664">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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