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True story: more New Yorkers turned out for Lafayette than the Beatles. Everyone's favorite fighting Frenchman!

"I thought you would be hiding from me. You ought to hide. But I have promised your brothers I will not kill you. They say they cannot afford the funeral." UGH. I LOVE DIALOG.

"There's brandy in that decanter on the what-you-call-it. Get me a fistful, will you? Of all the imbecilic, worthless rogues in all of God's creation, she had to shackle herself to you." I am such a sucker for impolite matriarchs. Give me a pissed-off lady over forty, and I am a happy camper. And Kate Reading does their voices so well!

"No! You are not to use your arts on me, madam. Unburden your conscience if you will, but at a distance." In which a fully grown useless male fribble is terrified of an eighteen year old trying to apologize. I can't wait for Jason to return...

This may say more about me than the book, but I could seriously care less about anyone but Scarlet and Wolf. The rest of these people are interchangeable to me.

I really, really love this series. The men start out truly useless: "A few hours ago, I watched you challenge half a town to battle and saw your knife pointed at my own heart. Where in blazes do you expect to find children? What poor devil is going to hold you still long enough to get one on you?"

"Are these alphabetical at all?"

IT'S A LIBRARY, PEOPLE. WHAT DO YOU THINK.

Do you want to know what I love about this author? Too bad I'm telling you anyway. There's no dramatic claiming or possessing or YOU'RE MINE NOW DRUSILLA. There's just this shared acknowledgment of: you don't have to do it alone, I'm coming with. And that is so much realer and so much more romantic than all the plundering of mouths.

The British government almost succeeded in hiding and/or destroying the Duke of WIndsor's Marburg file "...but for a card index." Information science FTW.

Cadbury is pussy-footing around the fact that the BRF, as well as all political elites involved, were unquestionably anti-semitic. It's not like Wallis and David were unique.

Second, and more damning, is the way she writes as though the Allied leaders and command were shocked--SHOCKED--at the Shoah. The truth was published in the damn paper and was reported on by foreign correspondents. I call bullshit.

Someone really MUST make a movie about Sir Walter Monckton facing off with the Gestapo's best for the Windsors' souls. I just love that Churchill sent a middle-aged lawyer to do battle with Ribbentrop over the worst ex-king EVER. There's so much material here, people. CALL ME, WEINSTEIN BROTHERS.

I...can't get over how clueless Edward and Wallis are. There's a war on! You don't make the First Lord of the Admiralty divert a fucking ship for you!

Depressing NaNo topics require a steady diet of dessert literature.

Wow. If you think QE2's reign hasn't been a high point for dignity in The Firm, you need to read this. Prince Andrew has nothing on these fools. "Rising tensions with the Nazis? Sounds like a great time to take my hated wife to Germany and get photographed giving our best Heil Hitler."

Also, LOL forever at the American Fourth Estate introducing Edward and Wallis to actual freedom of the press.

IT'S FINALLY HERE. Somehow, I pre-ordered the hard copy and not the kindle copy. Which, when you live in East Frozen Jesus, is a huge mistake.

Kleypas, we are overdue for a reunion. DON'T DISAPPOINT ME NO PRESSURE HA HA.

I am STRESSING.

This author is STILL salty about American independence. Why you so obsessed with us, Reid?

If I had any faith left in Peter Jackson, I would DEMAND a film adaptation. Maybe Guillermo del Toro...

Shit is getting REAL in the forest.

This is SO GOOD. Y'all. Get this audiobook. I love her voice. I have not enjoyed fantasy in many, many years and this is delightful.

Poor Sally. A secondary woman in a Cornwell book? She doesn't stand a chance. I'm already detaching from her.

I forgot how baby-centric this quartet is. I refuse to believe that anyone falls in love over spit up.