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  <title><![CDATA[A Brother's Price]]></title>
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  <default-description>In a world where males are rarely born, they've become a commodity-traded and sold like property. Jerin Whistler has come of age for marriage and his handsome features have come to the attention of the royal princesses. But such attentions can be dangerous-especially as Jerin uncovers the dark mysteries the royal family is hiding.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">7</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2005</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>A Brother's Price</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Wen Spencer]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantasy whose only interesting feature is the bit of gender reversal it's got going on. Jerin lives in a world where men are extremely rare, and thus regarded as very precious, sold for high prices, and generally married off to an entire family of sisters. They're also not really allowed to do any...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6075365">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Dec 28 11:23:13 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The conceit of this book, as many reviewers have mentioned, is that male children are rare in this world, which is a blend of a fantasy kingdom and the American wild west. If our kind-hearted, sweet-natured hero were female, I'd no doubt have left this one on the shelf.<br/><br/>But the conceit work...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41093609">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jun 19 06:15:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't put this book down. It's entirely different from the other books I've read by this author, but it's just as interesting as my favorite, Tinker. This is a historical romance with a twist: in this alternate reality, the ratio of female to male births is around 25 to 1, leading to a society ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60245167">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58484639">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jun 04 19:19:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this gender-role reversal novel.  It takes place in a time when steamboats are the epitome of traveling in style, and in a world where women greatly outnumber the men.  Men and boys must be protected.  They're the ones with long flowing hair, soft skin, and a penchant for caring for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58484639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43189588">
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  <date_updated>Thu Jan 15 18:34:06 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first true taste of a matriarichal society in written form.  It gave me pause to find the central character of the book was a book who was nearly fragil in his depiction.  I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy it, but it was referred to me as a good book so I gave it a chance.  It was well worth the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43189588">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25270809">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[All through the book I was marvelling at the world created by Wen Spencer. In a wild west culture, women outnumber men by something like 20 to 1. Groups of sisters will become wives to a single husband, who is protected and coddled away from society, and has domestic duties: cooking, cleaning and ra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25270809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21551889">
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    <body><![CDATA[This may be the first and only time that I'll say this, so everyone should take advantage of it-I was wrong, my mother was right. For years, my mother has been urging me to read fantasy and science fiction novels, to branch out of my safe cocoon of romance books and thrillers. She's touted the works...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21551889">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17578574">
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    <name><![CDATA[Michael]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Mar 12 05:17:25 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't tell if Ms. Spencer's novel is a serious feminist treatment on gender, or simply adolescent fantasy. Perhaps delving too much into John Norman, except from a feminist side, perhaps? Everything seems to suggest America around the nineteenth century, except of course, the suggestion that this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17578574">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17186542">
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    <name><![CDATA[Geneve]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Thu Mar 06 15:05:57 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[People seem to feel strongly about this book, one way or the other, but honestly all I could say about it was &quot;ehhh.&quot;<br/><br/>The setting is something like late 1800s old west, with gender reversal and polygamy. <br/>Only a few men are born, so lots of women marry one man in the hope t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17186542">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5439009">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lindsey]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This world captivated me. I am sure there are some lovers of romance who would complain about the gender role reversal, because they want their heroes alpha and experienced, so I am relieved that &quot;A Brother's Price&quot; was not pegged as a romance. However, the romance is undeniable!<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5439009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="560229">
  <user id="48808">
    <name><![CDATA[Danielle]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 03 21:32:09 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love most of Wen Spencer's sci-fi books. They're brilliant and unique.  That's why I am not sure what to make of this book of hers.  <br/><br/>It's clearly... an attempt to turn gender on its head. But what her goal in doing so is highly questionable. If she couldn't be clear as to what is goal ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/560229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72354564">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 24 11:18:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 24 11:21:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really interesting alternative history.  I like to think of myself as a modern feminist who sees gender stereotypes as socially constructed, but there were still moments in this book where the actions by either the hero or one of the heroines would be so completely out of gender character it wigged ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72354564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28872377">
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    <name><![CDATA[Julia]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 31 08:45:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wholly original one- off while I impatiently wait for another Wen Spencer book, this is a fantasy set in a world where there are many women and very few men.  <br/><br/>Jerin Whistler is two months away from when his sisters will be selling him for his dowry to a cluster of other sisters, so his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28872377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61843098">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a different transposing of gender than I've ever seen. It's a fun read, yay for drama and action and love. And it makes you question why we've decided to define men this way and women that way.]]></body>
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    <review id="24356141">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started out kind of slow for me, but definitely redeemed itself in the end.  It's about a society where men are rare and women are mean, aggressive and dominant.  Sisters share one or two husbands.  I found it a weird society.  And it was never explained why this was the case; it was just ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24356141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48533693">
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    <name><![CDATA[Erin]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 07 14:27:39 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The twist of a female dominany society, and the thought put into it's devlopment. AWESOME!  Especialy with the potential realism.]]></body>
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    <review id="12808093">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very controversial book, but it is worth reading, very refreshing and makes you take several second looks to be sure you read things right.  I like a book that totally rearranges the way we think (for just a moment).<br/><br/>There is romance and a little love play, but it doesn't overwh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12808093">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love the romance and world building parts of this book. Imagine a world where men are scarce and families that have boys/young men treat them like valuable and beloved treasures. Large families of women have learned to share a husband amongst the adult women- and that husband is protected and seques...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39895943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I severely disliked this book. The premise of it was interesting enough--a reversal of gender roles where females live in large families and protect their males at all costs, since there are barely any left. But that was where the interesting stuff ended. The book reads like a piece of fanfiction wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6221741">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is trashy fun.  Like the other books I've read by this author, I absolutely could not put it down.  It's a wee bit of a silly premise -- a planet where some virus attacking the Y chromosome has made males rare and the resulting turnabout of gender roles -- but it's too much fun having a pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13641843">more...</a>]]></body>
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