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  • An okay book

  • Not a bad book, but Thomas the Rhymer was much better if you'd like to read an Ellen Kushner book. This book has has some swordplay, a little intrigue, a little romance, and a lot of perversion. Though not explicit, I warn all future readers. There is all sorts of debauchery practiced or viewed b ... Continue

    Not a bad book, but Thomas the Rhymer was much better if you'd like to read an Ellen Kushner book. This book has has some swordplay, a little intrigue, a little romance, and a lot of perversion. Though not explicit, I warn all future readers. There is all sorts of debauchery practiced or viewed by the characters in this book.

    Then ending was lackluster and would have loved to see the main character go on to more ambitious things. Maybe there will be a sequel :)

    

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  • very erotic both sexes together

    

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• ― jackie said on Feb 15, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballroom, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. Her mistake is thinking that they apply. For Katherine's host and uncle, Alec Campion, aka the Mad Duke Tremontaine, is in charge here—and to him, rules are made to be broken. When Alec decides it would be more amusing for his niece to learn swordplay than to follow the usual path to marriage, her world changes forever. Blade in hand, it's up to Katherine to navigate a maze of secrets and scoundrels and to gain the self-discovery that comes to those who master: the privilege of the sword.


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