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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Allison Fraclose for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>The Southling Ellin has been summoned with her father to the Northland kingdom. In a land where they are despised for their red hair and feared for their magic, their hand in the healing of the Northland king is a secret. However, the heal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22007570">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is an excellent first book in the Tales of the Borderlands series by Meg Burden.  It's geared towards tweens/teens but if you like stories about people with magical ability I think you'll like this one regardless of your age.  The characters are well done and the book moves along at a q...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39400688">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The world Burden has created in Northlander is a very interesting world. I like the characters she created and even the conflict between them. When Burden talks about how cold it is in the north, I could sympathize because it has been so dang cold here. I liked the use of magic and that the main cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46667138">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the setting (though I'm pretty much guaranteed to love anything with quasi-Vikings), and there were a lot of interesting ethnic politics, with a neat undercutting of the initial hat-colour allocation halfway through. I CAN HAS SEQUELZ NAO PLZ? My only problems were that the princes were a li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15963274">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book and can't wait for the next one to come out!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an exellent book, I loved it!!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As long as they keep publishing YA coming of age fantasy with characters who have surprise magic powers and turn out to be the chosen one, I'll keep reading it.  I don't mean that to sound unenthusiastic -- this was pretty good and had a lot of surprises.  And some weird veterinary details too.  I w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13627185">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Spunky magical girl is surrounded by misunderstood blond beefcakes in icy, allegedly dangerous, castle. Story takes some interesting turns, but the author writes like a good amateur. Will there be more in this series? I don't really care.]]></body>
    
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