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a bodice-ripper (humorous)

a romantic book, usually where the story happens a long time ago, in which the characters show very strong emotions. She's written a serious novel, not some sort of bodice-ripper.

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Throw in Gavin's two young female wards, Will's near-magical horse Hosanna, and Kamil, the Muslim refugee from the Crusades who reluctantly becomes the imprisoned King Richard's messenger, and one has the stuff of the cheesiest of bodice-rippers. K. M. Grant: Green Jasper by Smith, Vicky / The Horn Book Magazine Otherwise, ``Bones'' is just another variation on the ubiquitous crime procedural, only involving crimes in which precious few remains are available of the victims, necessitating sci-fi science - that saucy bodice-ripper (Michaela Conlin) has invented a gadget that creates holographic versions of the victims based solely on their bony remains. `BONES' GOES FINE WITH HIT `HOUSE' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Written like a popular bodice-ripper novel, the book includes many panting sex scenes, furious jealousies, endless rantings about an empty womb. Sarah: a Novel by Dole, Pat / Kliatt More results

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Throw in Gavin's two young female wards, Will's near-magical horse Hosanna, and Kamil, the Muslim refugee from the Crusades who reluctantly becomes the imprisoned King Richard's messenger, and one has the stuff of the cheesiest of bodice-rippers.

K. M. Grant: Green Jasper by Smith, Vicky / The Horn Book Magazine

Otherwise, ``Bones'' is just another variation on the ubiquitous crime procedural, only involving crimes in which precious few remains are available of the victims, necessitating sci-fi science - that saucy bodice-ripper (Michaela Conlin) has invented a gadget that creates holographic versions of the victims based solely on their bony remains.

`BONES' GOES FINE WITH HIT `HOUSE' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Written like a popular bodice-ripper novel, the book includes many panting sex scenes, furious jealousies, endless rantings about an empty womb.

Sarah: a Novel by Dole, Pat / Kliatt

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