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An excellent book! Not as good as Wicked Becomes You, which I had just finished a few days before, but still very, very good. I think this is the only historical romance that has ever actually caused tears to fall from my eyes - one or two have caused me to tear up, but the scene between James and his sister was so powerful that I was actually crying a little (to my shame, lol).
This book really took me by surprise. It's got a cheesy title and a tawdry cover, so I didn't expect much (I know, I know, but I DO still judge books by their covers). To my delighted surprise, I discovered that this book has a lot more in common w/ Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody mysteries than it does w/ a trashy romance. I stayed up far too late reading this. I positively fell in love with the two main characters. Perhaps, if I'd been expecting it to be good, if I'd not been reading it in th
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Apr 28, 2011
SandyC
marked it as to-read
