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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this a lot at first, in a stupid trashy way, but got bored after a while, which is why I took so long to finish it. I think it reaches its height of trashy fun in Terre d'Ange; all the bits with Phedre living with the Skaldic tribes, getting away from them in the wintry tundra etc. etc. dr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11323724">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first thing everyone usually talks about regarding the Kushiel books is the sex, so I'll get it out of the way first:  S&amp;M, not for the faint of heart, absolutely integral to the plot.  <br/><br/>It's easy to summarize the book very briefly or very in-depth; it's almost impossible to do anythi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24167455">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me awhile to even manage to start reading the book because I find the author's style stuffy and impossible. However, I managed to get over that and was rather enjoying the eccentric heroine's adventures in sex and spying. Then the author systematically killed off three important characters i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20137641">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone recommends these books to people who liked Anne Bishop's Black Jewels Trilogy; they're both &quot;dark fantasy&quot; and have sex in them. However, I only got halfway through the first book before giving up completely.<br/><br/>I don't like Carey's writing style at all. It bores me to death...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9795375">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't normally do a very long or thorough review for books that are part of a trilogy: I tend to wait for the end of the trilogy. But Kushiel's Dart is an exception, mainly because there's enough action and intrigue for a whole trilogy in the first book alone. A lot of people start their reviews b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27396293">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favourite books for these two reasons, &quot;Love as thou wilt&quot; and &quot;That which yields is not always weak.&quot; This book (and the books that follow) is an incredibly detailed, involved, beautiful story and I can't really do it any justice. The plot is intricate, the cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1118630">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is going to be a very unpopular review. So, to all of you who may hate me after reading this, I apologize in advance. <br/><br/>From the rave reviews, and based on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.jacquelinecarey.com/gallery_tats.htm">the vast number of people who seemingly loved this book enough to tattoo a representation of it on their body</a>, I expected it to b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66609708">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those series I've seen around for years but have never happened to pick up. In my mind I linked it with the lusty-but-wholesome <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Outlander" title="Outlander">Outlander</a></em> books, I think, so when I finally read the back of the first volume my eyebrows nearly climbed up into my hair. An alternate medieval Europe, where...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22253302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's done. I have read this book. And I am not quite sure how to really put into words what it made me feel and what I thought of it. Sometimes words lack to really convey what you'd like to say, but I will try to the best of my ability.<br/><br/>This is one of the best books in the fantasy genre ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19792693">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was recommended to me by a colleague who prefaced the recommendation with, &quot;Give it the first 200 pages.  Then it gets really good.&quot;  This almost turned me off from it, not because I don't trust this colleagues recc's (she's never lead me astray yet), but because I don't really have t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15820191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just seem to pick good things to read and watch! Maybe I don’t take enough chances in my selection of what to watch and read, only going with things that I’ve heard positive things about. In this case, I heard about Kushiel’s Dart in the [infrequently updated] weblog of one of my favorite fa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7024736">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a reread, but I am happy that Kushiel's Dart is as gloriously vibrant and fun as it was upon first reading--the magic of Terre d'Ange is still there and..clothes!kinky sex! Action Spy Courtesans! IMAGINARY FRANCE!<br/><br/>This has fantasy, adventure and romance all wound up in a vibrant, we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24651976">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was intrigued by the world woven by the author.<br/>There were some fascinating reinterpretations of faith based pledging of servitude.<br/>Although the themes are obviously as old as time, there were a few unexpected quirks.<br/><br/>However, I was not so interested in the extreme repetition ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81064088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No.  Didn't really like it.  Still haven't gotten halfway into it.  Sadly, I also bought the next two volumes.  Just too slow and convoluted and uninteresting.  Maybe I'll give it another try sometime, but...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overwrought and fraught with fetish escapism; well, from the bit I saw. The 'depth' of this novel is culled from Biblical allusion and the French Court of Louis XIV; everybody steals.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I put it down after a couple of chapters and moved to a different book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A prostitute, a gypsy, and a warrior-priest walk into a bar.... Actually, this isn’t too far off from the plot of this book. The main character, Phedre, is an anguisette, the ultimate submissive, chosen to experience pleasure and pain as one. She is taught by her patron to be a spy as well, and sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40054643">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was absolutely brilliant. I was drawn into the story from page one...although after the first 200 or so pages, a story that was above average to begin with shot straight to the top of my favorites list.<br/><br/>It is a fairly complicated story due to various political intrigue...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58917780">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story centers around a young woman who can not feel pain without pleasure, and was sold into sex-slavery in the name of religion as a child. Cheery. <br/><br/>She is bought while still young and brought into the house of a kind nobleman, who teaches her language, observation and various other...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18766940">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i refer you all to cowsunafraid's excellent review 12/31/07.<br/><br/>i've learned that when you're a kid, you can read great fantasy by david eddings and feel like it gets kinda sexy sometimes (blush) but really it's about the knights and their queens and adventure and magic, etc.<br/><br/>then...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13779436">more...</a>]]></body>
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