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    <body><![CDATA[Carey writes very well. Her turns of phrase and choice of imagery are excellent. Her command of language is exquisite. She tells a deep and detailed story through well-imagined characters. I have found this true of all her books, and I can readily recommend them to anyone who can enjoy fantastical f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2205863">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I did enjoy the first two books in this series, it was with a bucket of reservations: repetition, overblown language, and inadequate characterization of the supporting characters, which made the impressively plotted political machinations so much less involving.<br/><br/>The third book, h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34879422">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The final novel in this series, this book asked the heroine to do everything that I could possibly have wanted and more.  She saved her friend, came to love the son of her enemy, and overcame the forces of evil.  And all through her adventures she maintained a sense of integrity, intelligence, and r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18395875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[See also my review for Kushiel's Dart, which covers this entire series.<br/><br/>This is the spiritually deepest and most terrifying of all three books. Phedre's pain-bearing gift takes her into a kind of hell-on-earth, something only she could psychologically and physically survive in order to ov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6351071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt spent after reading book 2 in this trilogy... but that was nothing compared to the terrible beauty of Kushiel's Avatar.  Carey delves deep into the darkness of the human psyche, and deep into our hearts with the seemingly impossible task laid at Phèdre's feet.  We might wish for gifts from t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1794151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow!  I REALLY loved this one!  This one is definately the best of the three!  Most adventure, most interesting places, coolest cities, best fight scene, most religions, worst bad guys...<br/><br/>Speaking of bad guys, I like vengeance killing.  You know, when the bad guy(s) have really pissed you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72218120">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar (Tor, 2003)<br/><br/>The mark of a great series is that when you get to the last hundred pages or so, you don't want to see it end. Such it is with Kushiel's Avatar, the third and final novel in Carey's D'Angeline trilogy. (The series continues on, but later book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61188071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is my favorite in a very well written series. Throughout the series, the characters became completely alive to me and I was sorry to see Phedre, Jocelyn, &amp; Hyacyinth prepare to move into the background to allow the newer generation of characters to take center stage, but you can't fight evo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57937199">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the best book in the trilogy, and one of the most engrossing series I've ever read. This is in the top five books of all time for me. When I started book one on audio, I definitely glazed over some of the politics. I thought I'd hate it, but actually, once I committed myself to learning the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56358616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished re-reading this for the umpteth time. My friend, Casey, is reading this one and I wanted to be as current as possible for discussion purposes.<br/><br/>Wow. Nothing could move Carey's place in my heart after Dart, but this book still has the power to awe me. The grand purpose, the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73335534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first two books in this trilogy were fun, a little trashy, and intriguing to read, but this one made me <em>care</em>.  The addition of Imriel as a character brought so much depth to Phedre, to her and Joscelin's relationship, and to the progression of the story that it really felt like a completely diff...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59961778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the final volume of Jacqueline Carey's first Kushiel trilogy. Ten years have passed since the last book, the reason why I deliberately took a stretch of time in between reading them. I'm glad I did as it allowed me to appreciate Phedre's maturity, wisdom and personal growth in the decade tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57132868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[his book is filled with love, betrayal, espionage, hate, pain, and of coarse scenes of very rough and vividly described sex. <br/><br/>This book was a very difficult book to read.  While all of the character interactions are beautifully written, seeing the opposite meaning of &quot;love as thou wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48067945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to rate this as high as the first two, but a couple things bothered me about it.  The beginning was awfully slow.  Even on their journey they take (there’s always a huge journey in fantasy novels like these), there didn’t seem to be much action and there wasn’t a lot to fill in the ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43232807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You always expect with these 'final' books that there will be a grand battle, and good will prevail. Yet here, you find yourself chewing your nails in despair, wondering how your favourite characters are going to get themselves out of this mess. <br/><br/>To her absolute credit, Carey never relies...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41894262">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I suppose it goes without saying that I loved the final book of this trilogy. The trilogy has its flaws, I'll admit. For one thing, pages on pages could have been cut in the interests of getting to the point faster and dazzling prose. Still, for me, I quite enjoyed the leisurely pace in some parts o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26935600">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Over 700 pages, and so rich in character and plot that you dare not skim (not that you'd want to miss much!), this is not a quick read.  But it's worth every hour you spend.<br/><br/>The third in Phaedre's story, a former pleasure slave blessed or cursed to find her greatest fulfillment through th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26349271">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book finishes the ongoing tale of Phedre, the pain loving courtesan who uses sex and intrigue to save her country.  This final book of three is set over a decade after the previous two.  This time Phedre's journeys are more personal.  The first half of the book is spent describing her journey t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18592955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book three of the Kushiel's Legacy Trilogy.<br/><br/>From Booklist<br/>*Starred Review* Terre d'Ange's inhabitants are the descendents of angels, a race of breathtaking beauty whose highest law is Love as Thou Wilt. Extraordinarily skilled as a courtesan as well as in diplomacy and espionage, Phe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14704405">more...</a>]]></body>
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