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    <body><![CDATA[I have been waiting for this book for quite some time now. I found it on Monday at Wal-Greens, the book release date was Tuesday, so I was estatic. I gave it a 3 because I was expecting so much more. <br/><br/>It's a good book. I would recommend it if you like her other Bastion Club books and want...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64432195">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half of the book was well-written and intriguing.  Then we get to the sex scenes, which I skip.  I skipped so many pages in the next third of the book that I felt there was little in them.  The last part of the book again became intriguing.  I guess my main problem with it was the applicat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74407980">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading &quot;A Fine Passion&quot;, I skipped the next Bastion Club novels to read this latest addition because I've always been intrigued by Dalziel, and this book lived up to my expectations.<br/><br/>Since he kept appearing in all the Bastion Club books, my interest in him grew more and m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70345673">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[From the other Bastion Club series, we only come to know him as Dalziel, the enigmatic commander with mysterious background. Mastered By Love tells all there is need to know of Dalziel or Royce Varisey, the 10th Duke of Wolverstone.<br/><br/>I was waiting patiently for this book because I am forev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79379158">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A great disappointment.  I have followed the Bastion Club series since its inception.  All have deserved the appellation &quot;romantic suspense&quot; in every instance of each term.  Mastered was to be the culmination of the series revealing the master spy and the master treasoner.  I ended up skip...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66939334">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm already annoyed with this book.  If the guys in the Bastion Club were master spies for England, why could they never figure out who Dalziel was?  It's a wonder England ever beat France.  As heir to a duke (who very publicly cut him out of the family), Royce would have been known to a ton of peop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67208934">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this pull away from the innocent being ravished for Laurens.  There is some of that, but Minerva has a bit more verve than many of the heroines for this genre :-)  It was nice to see Dalziel finally get his since he's been in and out of the other novels and wasn't even officially on the list -...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66443333">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was somewhat disappointed in this book.  I was expecting a bigger reunion with all the Bastion Club members and more mystery and intrigue about the last traitor that kept slipping away.  Even though the storyline between Royce and Minerva was excellent, the overall plot of the book was not as good...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66637386">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Every ten pages!!!!! Good Lord, they were like bunnies!<br/><br/>Aside from the business of getting down often, this was her best book in a while. Royce bored me after about page 150, but I liked Minerva throughout the whole book. 2 stars for the story but no more for all of the bunny-ness.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>A bit of diasspointment,really. Not bad mind you, in particular seeing the other members of the Bastion Club again was a bonus, &amp;  Devil Cynster was an added surprise. But afer building up the last traitor storyline in the last 7 books, I'd thought it would have played more of a part in the ov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65315370">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fitting end to the Bastion Club series with Dalziel, aka Royce, Duke of Wolverstone, finding his true love in someone he has known for his whole life. A great historical romance by a great author.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book enjoyable at times. I mean I expected Dalziel to be a great lover but personally I find that the love scenes were too long and drawn out. I get the picture. I even skipped through some of it. The book dragged along some and I thought that the last traitor died too easily. It was a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72241336">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ms. Laurens has GOT to stop having her characters &quot;inwardly grimace&quot; or &quot;inwardly&quot; do anything.  She used &quot;inwardly&quot; so many times in this book that it became a distraction.]]></body>
    
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