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This quest is intermittently retarded by Eloise’s invasive narration. Every few chapters, we are brought back to contemporary London and treated to Eloise’s scintillating updates on her research progress, as well as her continued lusting after charming British bloke, Colin Selwick. Substitute “Firth” for “Selwick,” and you have an idea of how this plot too will develop...
...racing, racy historical narrative is driven by plucky characters with dual lives like 20-year-old Amy Balcourt, a.k.a. The Pink Carnation, who abandons a peaceful life in the British countryside to avenge her guillotined aristocrat father. Witty, rapier-wielding Lord Richard Selwick, a foppish Egyptologist at home in England, ventures into Bonaparte’s sanctum and dons the dashing mask of The Purple Gentian to save fair Brittania—and win Balcourt’s quivering Regency-era heart...
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