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Title: Yukky story (not even a story, really) but beautiful prose.
Review: I bought the hardback at Sam's a few years ago. I invested waaay too much time and money.This book was so beautifully written - but the story sucked. The author is certainly gifted. But i hated the book.Don't know to this day why(or how) I finished it.The characters were so very unlikeable - all of them. Except maybe for the black servant. He was ok. Not a redeeming quality assigned to any of them.The history part (Napoleonic Wars) was on the verge of interesting, but wasn't.There's a reason this book is NOT a movie. Nothing happens.I was most uncharitable when donated this book to the Y for their quarterly book sale. God forgive me.
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