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    <body><![CDATA[amazingly wonderfully fantastically gooood!<br/><br/>WARNING: If you plan to read the first one (The Luxe) you might not want to read this because it gives away info from the end of the first book. just fyi.<br/><br/>Manhattan, 1899.  The drama amongst the most admired people in Manhattan’s so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41333192">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While Ms. Godberson won't be winning any awards for her writing soon- (how many times can anger or rage &quot;burn down the back of her throat&quot; weird- sounds like reflux to me. When she describes the men at the ball with their heads looking like &quot;soft boiled eggs&quot; above their collars....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32188256">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mm..I'm really torn with this book.<br/><br/>Okay, this book was good. Really good. Which is shocking because I found the first one to be a tad bit boring. I don't know why, but this one is SO MUCH BETTER! Maybe it is because the author didn't have explain too much and could just dive right into a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38584254">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> After bidding good-bye to New York's brightest star, Elizabeth Holland, rumors continue to fly about her untimely demise. </p> <p> <br/><br/>All eyes are on those closest to the dearly departed: her mischievous sister, Diana, now the family's only hope for redemption; New York's most notorious cad, Henry Schoonmaker, the flame Elizabeth never extinguished; the seductive Penelope Hayes, poised to claim all that her best friend left behind&#8212;including Henry; even Elizabeth's scheming former maid, Lina Broud, who discovers that while money matters and breeding counts, gossip is the new currency. </p> <p> <br/><br/>As old friends become rivals, Manhattan's most dazzling socialites find their futures threatened by whispers from the past. In this delicious sequel to <em>The Luxe</em>, nothing is more dangerous than a scandal . . . or more precious than a secret. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[*cries* The ending!   Argh! I'm torn between wanting the next book desperatly and wanting to pretend I never read the last few chapters......... I was actually near tears at the end, and I never cry at books. Granted, I didn't cry at this end either, but still. I was as close as I ever get.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21406855">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I could have continued to tolerate these books if it weren't for author's choice of dramatic endings for this one. Now I'm just angry. What was the point of making us go through all those pages of half-developed characters and relationships if you're just going to throw us a ridiculously trite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44329505">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> After bidding good-bye to New York's brightest star, Elizabeth Holland, rumors continue to fly about her untimely demise. </p> <p> <br/><br/>All eyes are on those closest to the dearly departed: her mischievous sister, Diana, now the family's only hope for redemption; New York's most notorious cad, Henry Schoonmaker, the flame Elizabeth never extinguished; the seductive Penelope Hayes, poised to claim all that her best friend left behind&#8212;including Henry; even Elizabeth's scheming former maid, Lina Broud, who discovers that while money matters and breeding counts, gossip is the new currency. </p> <p> <br/><br/>As old friends become rivals, Manhattan's most dazzling socialites find their futures threatened by whispers from the past. In this delicious sequel to <em>The Luxe</em>, nothing is more dangerous than a scandal . . . or more precious than a secret. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The sequel to <em>The Luxe</em>, which I read a few months ago and enjoyed.  In this installment, all the same characters continue to live their secretly scandalous society in the last month of 1899, some scheming to better their situation, others trying to marry the fiance Elizabeth left behind, and so on. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40140644">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[MUCH better than anticipated. <br/><br/>I was initially going to give this book three stars. I liked it, and I was breezing through the pages so fast trying to find out what happened next, but there was nothing that really gave it the WOW factor. At one point early on, I was even sort of bored. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65248944">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dear Anna Godbersen, <br/><br/>I read your books to be entertained, not for your scintilating commentary on historical popularity.  Please get over yourself and go back to writing fluff.  I do not accept death as a means of character development in my fluff.  You need to understand that you are wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38609839">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> After bidding good-bye to New York's brightest star, Elizabeth Holland, rumors continue to fly about her untimely demise. </p> <p> <br/><br/>All eyes are on those closest to the dearly departed: her mischievous sister, Diana, now the family's only hope for redemption; New York's most notorious cad, Henry Schoonmaker, the flame Elizabeth never extinguished; the seductive Penelope Hayes, poised to claim all that her best friend left behind&#8212;including Henry; even Elizabeth's scheming former maid, Lina Broud, who discovers that while money matters and breeding counts, gossip is the new currency. </p> <p> <br/><br/>As old friends become rivals, Manhattan's most dazzling socialites find their futures threatened by whispers from the past. In this delicious sequel to <em>The Luxe</em>, nothing is more dangerous than a scandal . . . or more precious than a secret. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once again, we start at the end. Henry Schoonmaker, still the most eligible bachelor in NYC, is getting married. But to who? And are the rumors that Elizabeth Holland is actually alive really true? For that, you'll have to read the book.<br/><br/>I think that I'm really starting to settle into the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61931585">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Riveting.<br/><br/>I've always loved stories set in the 1800's. The characters are distinctive, resembling Gossip Girl in the previous era. Gossip cluttered, beautiful high society ladies, dashing men, naughty secrets. I loved it.<br/><br/>Penelope is like Blair, but with more sneaky ways and ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50789488">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say that I enjoyed this one much more than the first in the series, &quot;The Luxe&quot;. Perhaps it was because I already knew the characters from the previous book and had more invested in the story. Or, perhaps I felt there was more to this story than the previous. Either way, it was qu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61769769">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the second book in the Luxe series. It was really, really good and kept my attention throuhout the story. In this book, Elizabeth, now living in California, receives letters from her younger sister, Diana, explaining what is going on. But the Holland family has experienced a growing deb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53809279">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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