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“Kresley Cole … effortlessly delivers heart-wringing romance, likable heroines, hot heroes, and hotter sex … set against an original and exciting paranormal mythology that keeps the both the story and reader speeding along from one high point to another.”
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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And I hope you're both right, that there really will be a pony at the end of this heart-wringing saga.
Pony Pep Talk Needed...ARRGGH! rabid1st 2009
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“Kresley Cole … effortlessly delivers heart-wringing romance, likable heroines, hot heroes, and hotter sex … set against an original and exciting paranormal mythology that keeps the both the story and reader speeding along from one high point to another.”
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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He doesn't see the story as a shop-worn anachronism (it's set in 2001, but it feels like 1944), and he doesn't milk it for heart-wringing sentiment (the plot does all the milking on its own).
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Instead it is a heart-wringing paeon to homesickness.
After a chequered history the England World Cup song is dead 2010
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“Kresley Cole … effortlessly delivers heart-wringing romance, likeable heroines, hot heroes, and hotter sex … set against an original and exciting paranormal mythology that keeps both the story and the reader speeding along from one high point to another.”
Demon From The Dark Kresley Cole 2010
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He had waited a long time for his day in court, and he gave a heart-wringing account of the way Verres had abused his hospitality, stolen his property, trumped up charges against him, fined him, tried to have him flogged, sentenced him to death in his absence, and then forged the records of the Syracusan court—records which Cicero produced in evidence and passed around the jury.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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He had waited a long time for his day in court, and he gave a heart-wringing account of the way Verres had abused his hospitality, stolen his property, trumped up charges against him, fined him, tried to have him flogged, sentenced him to death in his absence, and then forged the records of the Syracusan court—records which Cicero produced in evidence and passed around the jury.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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"The thing is, Max, " he said, tons of heart-wringing emotion in his eyes, -you're even more special than I always told you.
The Angel Experiment Patterson, James, 1947- 2005
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It was pathetic, heart-wringing fancying; and later in the day Clemens conceived and began the poem which now he brought to conclusion.
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