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    <body><![CDATA[Generally, I don't pick up random books at Barnes and Noble that I don't already know a little about. However, I made an exception with Affinity because it intrigued me so. I come to find out that was a pretty costly mistake. <br/><br/>Firstly, the book dabbles in the supernatural psychics world w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46435592">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book really kept my interest, but i was honestly rooting for a happy ending for the main character of margaret.  i appreciate a good surprise in a book, which i very much got, since i actually thought that selena's character was honest and that within the context of this novel, the things that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34153771">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Affinity is the story of Margaret, a young woman in Victorian era England, who attempts to commit suicide after her father dies. As part of her recovery, she becomes a &quot;Lady Visitor&quot; at a women's prison, an upper-class role model for the prisoners to look up to and emulate. She and one of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1889432">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sarah Waters is a real talent, there's no questioning that. And if you haven't read one of her books, I request that you start straight away, beginning with Fingersmith, because it is sure to whet your appetite for more.<br/><br/>I think, however, that because I started off with Tipping the Velvet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71966535">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I've missed a meeting on this one.<br/>I can take flawed characters. I am very happy with the theme of lesbian love. The theme of scam spirit calling and the hysterical pawing at dead relatives is right up my alley.<br/><br/>But I was alternately so woefully bored and frustrated it sucked...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72243634">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For the past year I've gotten into a loop of sucky books.<br/>Well, maybe they don't actually suck, it's just that I don't like them.<br/><br/>The idiot me keeps spending (wasting) money on books that make me feel sad for the waste of paper.<br/>This is one of those books I wish I had not read....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63558975">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Incredibly powerful exploration of freedom and love. Medium Selina Dawes, inprisoned for fraud in a Victoria gaol, weaves a spell around the reader as well as around &quot;lady visitor&quot; Margaret Prior. <br/><br/>The conditions within the prison are well described - as is their effect on every...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63410538">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA['Don't go to near the bed! Don't you know it's haunted, by our old kisses? They'll come and frighten you.' p.204. These words utterd by Margaret, the protaganist, to her faithless lover, Helen.<br/> <br/>Affinty is an exploration of the mystical facets of love and lust. That which is not apparaent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45717031">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The story in Affinity is told through two girls' diaries, which makes it confusing to read at first. Once I got used to it, I could see how well this mechanism served to deliver the plot.<br/><br/>The first half of the book I felt went a bit slow. There's a lot of set-up and description contained ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60797005">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, this book was not really what I was expecting.  First of all, it concerns a young woman, Margaret Prior, who attempted suicide, but was discovered while she could still be saved.  Her doctor suggests that she may benefit from being a &quot;Lady Visitor&quot; at Millbank Prison, in London.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65590214">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Glorious book. The narration is so accurate to the dialect of Victorian England that you would think Sarah Waters grew up in that time period. The story was set up perfectly - leading us on to fully believe in this supernatural power in their world, and then... well, I won't spoil it. But, I must sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51003538">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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