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  <title><![CDATA[The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Pink Carnation, #1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Nothing goes right for Eloise. The one day she wears her new suede boots, it rains cats and dogs. When the subway stops short, she's the one thrown into some stranger's lap. Plus, she's had more than her share of misfortune in the way of love. In fact, after she realizes romantic heroes are a thing of the past, she decides it's time for a fresh start.
Setting off for England, Eloise is determined to finish her dissertation on that dashing pair of spies, the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. But what she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: the secret history of the Pink Carnation - the most elusive spy of all time. As she works to unmask this obscure spy, Eloise stumbles across answers to all kinds of questions. How did the Pink Carnation save England from Napoleon? What became of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian? And will Eloise Kelly escape her bad luck and find a living, breathing hero all her own?</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2004</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Pink Carnation, #1)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lauren Willig]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 19 14:52:06 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 19 14:57:09 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The trouble here is that I find the premise of Ms. Willig's series absolutely perfect. I wish I'd thought of it first. Barring that, I wish someone else had thought of it first and written it better.<br/><br/>We needed a Scarlet Pimpernel spin-off, really we did. And to combine that with a paralle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27726787">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3543773">
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>5</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[oversexed and underaged pseudo-history buffs]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 26 03:01:18 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 22 21:14:37 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would rather like my two hours back that I spent on this book. It's not that it was bad, rather, it had an intriguing premise, but the past/future aspects were poorly merged, the part of the story set in present day was absolutely unsatisfying and the Georgian smut felt out of place, perhaps becau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3543773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27860793">
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 21 10:22:49 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 03 07:18:21 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was bitterly disappointed in this book.  Given the quality hard cover, the lovely cover art and the blurb, I was expecting something that strives to be Heyer or Austen. I would have been happy with something that fell along the lines of Tasha Alexander or Deanna Raybourne.  Heck, I would counted m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27860793">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22800151">
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    <name><![CDATA[Loni]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 23 03:51:12 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 23 03:58:58 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, this book started out so cute!  It's a great mix of historical fiction (granted with several liberties taken), chick lit, and a cute little Superman/Lois Lane man-in-a-mask love story.  It was just a fun read.  Until the sex scene...   So I don't recommend it.  In hind sight, although it was c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22800151">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="34974149">
    <user id="112377">
    <name><![CDATA[Kim]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Minneapolis, MN]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[fans of historical romance, chick lit, or swashbuckling films]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[my friend Becky]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 10 07:43:40 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 10 08:41:07 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is hard to categorize, but it's a lot of fun.  Eloise Kelly is a klutzy, directionally challenged graduate student in history (not like anybody I know) who is trying to discover the identity of the Pink Carnation, a spy in the mode of the Scarlet Pimpernel.  The key, she believes, may lie ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34974149">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="28515022">
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    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 28 10:30:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 28 10:30:58 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps my disappointment is my own fault. The jacket blurb is fabulous, the cover captivating, the premise intriguing. I waited weeks to have enough to time to curl up on the sofa and read this book. I made it to page 55 (at page 22 I decided to force myself to get to page 100-not going to happen t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28515022">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12858321">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 18 14:08:30 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 28 10:57:36 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Wilig<br/>This is the first book in the Pink Carnation series.<br/>If you like historical novels with a splash of romance and a hint of esponiage.   This is the book for you.   I really enjoyed reading this book.   It starts out with Eliose Kelly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12858321">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="12562391">
    <user id="54076">
    <name><![CDATA[Cynthia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Durham, NC]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Michelle]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 15 06:40:19 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 17 07:24:23 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  It was humorous and cute.  This book follows Amy, a wannabe spy adventurer, who tries to join The Purple Gentian's spy network against France shortly after the French Revolution.  Of course nothing goes smoothly for the slightly dizzy heroine.  The author combines histor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12562391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7574972">
    <user id="225957">
    <name><![CDATA[Nicole]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Dayton, OH]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 11 06:55:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 02 03:19:52 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of those books that I found easier to read once I gave up any expectations I started with, and I will confess that it did redeem itself in my eyes by the end.  It was a cute but predictable about the hijinks surrounding the doings and identities of the preposterously-named Purple Gentia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7574972">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="17646778">
    <user id="113980">
    <name><![CDATA[Trin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 12 21:36:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 19 14:47:44 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[While Willig definitely displays some wit, this book is hampered by a dull, clichéd romantic plot. I don’t mind—and can even really like—older man/younger woman romances, but not when the man seems like a MAN, and the woman like a silly, flighty girl. Then it’s icky. And there was a bit too...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17646778">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="3241836">
    <user id="201005">
    <name><![CDATA[Rachal]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fairfax, VA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who like frilly romance novels]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 18 16:47:22 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 18 16:53:30 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cute little book. Romance, adventure, spying, etc. It was a good light read and each character was nice. But it cuts between England/France with Napoleon to modern time by using a doctoral student researching her thesis and the secret of the pink carnation (an English spy). I would say that the part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3241836">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="722716">
    <user id="58940">
    <name><![CDATA[Debbie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Silver Spring, MD]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 14 15:05:56 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 14 15:06:03 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the Scarlet Pimpernel and Willig has taken the foundation laid by Baroness Orczy and expanded it, creating the Purple Gentian and the Pink Carnation. Two stories in one, the book follows modern day scholar Eloise who is determined to unmask the Pink Carnation as well as Amy, a woman who lived...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/722716">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="43201486">
    <user id="1880194">
    <name><![CDATA[Amy ]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Meridian, MS]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 15 20:11:46 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 15 20:29:20 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the good things about managing a book store is being able to read new release magazines and see books and series that you didn't even know existed that you are curious to try, so you order them for your store.<br/><br/>One of the <strong>bad</strong> things about managing a book store is reading new release...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43201486">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="39218365">
    <user id="1772120">
    <name><![CDATA[Hypercat]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[East Canaan, CT]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Dec 03 13:13:47 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 03 13:38:50 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[First, let me say that this book is definitely in the romance genre, so if you don't like romance novels, don't read it. OTOH, you just might be pleasantly surprised. It's not a &quot;heaving bosom, bulging muscles&quot; kind of romance. It's a real story that's witty and engaging.  And it's got som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39218365">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39218365]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="77996520">
    <user id="1517655">
    <name><![CDATA[Jamie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 16 14:19:24 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 16 14:37:15 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Uh-wo-ho! It's hard to write an exclamation.  I began the book without ever hearing of it or knowing what it was about.  By the cover art and title, I expected a period book and was disappointed to find the main character irritating in a modern world.  I had a long ride home, though and decided I wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77996520">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77996520]]></url>
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    <review id="73003775">
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    <name><![CDATA[Shannon]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 30 09:50:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am all for comedic books and light reads, and regency romances...but this one is just plain silly. Based on the premise, I expected a tale of intrigue, romance and danger. What I got was a tale of idiocy, sex and bumbling. The present-day Harvard student and the 1803 &quot;well-bred&quot; lady who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60520981">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First and foremost, let me say how terribly delighted I am with Lauren Willig. Not only for delighting me with her own story and characters and lines, but also for all the homages she makes to others of my favorite authors, such as this nod to Austen on page 244: &quot;It is a truth universally ackn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56912975">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was really excited about this historical fiction novel.  But like many readers, I was sorely disappointed with the reliance on fluffy romance versus historical relevance.  Even through my disappointment, I persevered because the storyline was truly cute and the characters were charming.  But I hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24753471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This series is, I admit, a guilty pleasure of mine...I am anxious for the fourth installment to come out.  It is a romance novel/Chick Lit set in England during the French Revolution.  I really did get carried away with the characters and went and bought the second and the third in the series as soo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10708237">more...</a>]]></body>
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