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Title: None but the bored
Review: Started this book with the best intentions but found it too slow, with stilted unrealistic dialogue and characters that I felt like slapping, not relating to or feeling sympathy for. The author had obviously carried out extensive and meticulous research for the book however it was a great pity that she decide to include ALL of it in the novel, along with every possible historical figure of the period. It's a novel, not a history text and the over abundance of historical research included detracts from the narrative. I found myself skipping pages and pages in order to try to move the novel along.
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