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    <body><![CDATA[I've read a couple of other Balogh books that I liked, but I LOVED this one.  I felt like the characters truly had something at stake and I could understand the loneliness and unhappiness that each felt and how even though things had started off terribly between them, they could grow to care about o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57976794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ On the run, accused of murder, Fleur is alone and scared on the streets of London, slowly starving, she only one thing left of value: her body. So when a man picks her up for sex, the experience leaves her changed, stripped of her virginity and sicken with herself. Thinking the life of a whore woul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58984870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this might be the darkest book that the author has written.  I thought this story was quite tragic and sad, but there is bittersweet happiness at the end.  I had a hard time putting this book down because I was so curious as to what would happen next.  While reading, I did think of <u>Jane Eyre...</u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43017972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bittersweet and frank, this book deals with a marriage that was never right, a runaway that falls on hard times, and a man wrecked by Waterloo, unusual subject matter for a Regency book and an unusual approach, but once one gets used to Ms. Balogh's touch of realism and feel for the times she is wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43026063">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know a lot of people love this book. They think it romantic that the heroine overcomes a life of prostitution (one time? Please!) and that the hero is so upstanding and gallant. What they don't tell you is that for the first 200 pages of this book, the heroine is a whining, simpering idiot who is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21399690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay...this book got three stars because I liked the characters and the story.  I did not like how the author repeated the same phrase over and over again and went on and on about scenery.  But, it was a good story overall and Fleur and Adam were good together....a little over the top mooshy at time...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67265818">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best romances I've read in awhile--despite the fact that the heroine spends most of the book being afraid of the hero.  Balogh does an excellent job of conveying the inner torment both Fleur and Adam feel.  The rich characterization sets this book apart from others in the genre.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was by far not up to Balogh's ability as a writer. The characters were too dark and too slimy for my tastes. Everyone was in someone else's bed. It was difficult to like any of the characters - even the hero and heroine have major flaws.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If not for the beautiful way this bittersweet melodrama ended, the story would have gotten a rating of 1 or 2. So sad for too long....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one made me cry.<br/><br/>Raunch factor: Meh. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Regency]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fleur &amp; Adam]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was OK.  I don't know if I really liked the characters.  The story was interesting and quite original, but I was left with a few questions.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I cant even begin to tell you guys how much I LOVED this book!!!!  I cried my eyes out and sometimes thats such a good thing!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a great book. It dragged on unecessarily, the characterisation  of hero's wife in particular was terribly unrealistic. The heroine's patheticness was irritating. There were a couple of good and touching scenes but that didn't make up for the annoying, self-pitying characters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh I just loved this story!  bittersweet, heart breaking and sorrowful for the most part, but for me an enduring love story with a very happy HEA.<br/>  ]]></body>
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