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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a birthday gift from my dear friend Barbara.  I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys historical fiction...specifically works similar to The Da Vinci Code.  (Which I have not read yet.  I'm getting there.)  The inner-jacket text describes it best -- The Illuminator is a glorious nov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21001226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Review from ceruleana (Manhattan, NY) at amazon.uk:<br/><br/>At the end of the fourteenth century, England was riddled with plagues, wars, uprisings, and political and religious strife. King Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince, was crowned in 1377, when he was just ten years-old. His two un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20470340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While the book begins with promise and develops a fairly interesting narrative, it degenerates into a mess of quickly tied up story lines.  So many of the characters had such promise, for instance the scullery maid who sees auras, that when the promise isn't realized, it's quite disappointing. My ey...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13186018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this one on CD and although I really liked some aspects of it and found it historically interesting, it was just too predictible and seemed like everything had to go wrong for everyone just to show the difficult times. I don't know how much of that is the plotline and writing and how m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6169175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By most of my standards, this is not a very good book, but it certainly made me want to read &amp; keep reading--it's a real page turner. Set around 1380 near Norwich, England, with John Wycliffe &amp; Julian of Norwich as significant background figures, it features a widowed noble lady (and her twin 15-yea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66285514">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Call me snooty, but this book is, to me, a great example of a book's popularity and its quality being completely at odds. This book was a national bestseller, and I could not bring myself to keep reading after the first 100 pages of the novel. Other than the (really, quite compelling) underlying plo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42822088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was another of those books where my wife is going to read it for book club and I have nothing else to read so I pick it up. It's a historical fiction about a time period that I find interesting (the middle ages). The book portrays a generally noble class of family through a struggle between the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68580911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel begins with an interesting story line and intriguing characters and is set during an interesting time in English history.  Even with all the novel has going for it at the outset, my final impression was one of disappointment.  I can appreciate tragic elements, but this novel borders on me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42474669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books.  I love the time in history that is covered (when John Wyclif wrote the first Bible in the vernacular in England) and loved the main character.  She was resilient at a time when women had no rights.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Christians forget that the Bible was not available to the mass market for many many years.  This novel tells about the start of the John Wycliffe movement that changed the face of Christianity forever.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Historical fiction the way it should be. A strong sense of time and place with characters both distant and entirely relatable in their passions. Ultimately sad, poignant and redemptive. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fairly well crafted book set in an interesting time in history (14th century England). Within the first 50 pages, I was ready to throw it away as a clumsy bodice-ripper, but the rest of the book was better. I wanted more from the story - more integration of historical fact, more consistent charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74174926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book gave me ideas throughout the time it took me to read this. Not only was it an interesting story that took me longer than necessary to read it, it also helped me figured out some things about myself. Not exactly deep, philosophical things but actually a rough approximate of how long it take...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49440341">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is set during a fascinating time - fourteenth century England.  OK, I'll admit that before reading this book, I probably would not have classified 14th c. England as &quot;fascinating,&quot; but I'm sold after reading this book.  I think I found it interesting because it's a time in histor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31950940">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was an incredibly engrossing book despite its many flaws. I wish so many elements could have been played up (the aura-seeing maid, the beginnings of writing in English, the translation of the Bible into English). It was obviously written well enough to keep me up til 2am reading it on Friday, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67882641">more...</a>]]></body>
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