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Compulsively readable melodrama hitting all the majors of lust, money, power; I didn’t expect it to be as funny as it was. However, I’m rounding down for two reasons. I thought the pacing was off in terms of when the moments of highest drama took place in the book and Adeline is unendurable. Still lots of fun as well as a compelling view of French society during the reign of Louis Philippe.

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