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May 21, 2014
Mo
rated it
it was amazing
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2017,
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bodice-ripper
This book was everything a good bodice ripper should be.

This novel has a readable style compared to most romance novels, but what makes it stand out are the plot and characterizations which are about as far away from the conventional historical romance as you can get--in good ways. The heroine, Amanda Briars, is a women of independent means in Victorian England who makes her living as a novelist. She arranges for a male prostitute to come to her on her 30th birthday because she's tired of being a spinster virgin. Except what the madame sends is a man
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I'm almost sure that Lisa Kleypas can't write a bad book.
So this is another great book by her, with interesting charactera and circumstances.
Liked the male's character like always. Let there be a guy like that for every woman in the world.
And the story happened closer to our time, with there being libraries and the woman's standing in society beggining to change.
Only after I finished reading it did I notice I already read it befor joining goodreads... the importance of the site... so that you do ...more
So this is another great book by her, with interesting charactera and circumstances.
Liked the male's character like always. Let there be a guy like that for every woman in the world.
And the story happened closer to our time, with there being libraries and the woman's standing in society beggining to change.
Only after I finished reading it did I notice I already read it befor joining goodreads... the importance of the site... so that you do ...more

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Nicole
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Mar 26, 2011
Angela Randall
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Apr 25, 2012
Bror (Abrar)
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