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    <body><![CDATA[The second prequel of The Mists Of Avalon I've read in the serie so far. Though it can be clearly seen on the writing style that this book was finished by Diana L. Paxson - her writing style is surely poorer and more simple than Marion's - I still enjoyed Helena's story very much and it was very tou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51473727">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Get a tissue!  The last 1/3 of the book made me get misty eyed more than once.  When Helena goes to Palestine for a year in order to identify the Holy and Sacred places for her son, Constantine so that he may build Churches upon those grounds, I thought got boring.  I didn't read to much into that p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49337639">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first part of this book was really good, but later on I felt like I was back in college listening to Sister Mary Holywater recite names, dates and places..If i can memorize them, you can memorize them. I really wanted to know Helana's story, not a list of Roman emperors and all their intrigue. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48229397">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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