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    <body><![CDATA[A typically intricately plotted and dense offering from Dunnett; before I began this series, I would not have thought it possible to complicate one's life more than Lymond did, and yet Nicholas seems more than up to the task. This is the darkest of the 'Niccoló Rising' series so far—an echo of <em>Pa...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50180004">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book as well as all the others in the series.  This time the setting is Scotland and there is more bitterness created between Simon and Nicolas.  Also the character Kateljine is more developed.  I feel like the author is holding back something with her.  Almost like she has some great s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49259141">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the darkest of the Nicolo books so far.  It took me a long time to finish becuase I was just so frustrated with the charecters, but I'm now suffeciently invested that I'm going to get the next from interlibrary loan.  ANd I think there's hope I might like them again.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Certain things I predicted when I started the book (or rather when I finished the last one) were correct, much to my astonishment. Nicholas still makes me exclaim in startled disbelief when I'm reading the book -- I don't think he'll ever stop surprising me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dark but not depressing.  I care about the fate of so many of the characters in this series. ]]></body>
    
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