Book Excerpt for the Day

    Pulling men had never been her forte.  She'd always believed that an outright demonstration of her virtues would serve to establish her firmly in someone's affections.  Womanly virtues had  a longevity to them that sexual allure could never match.  And when lust and passion died the death of familiarity, one needed something of substance to take their place.  Or so she had taught herself to believe through an adolescence and a young adulthood remarkable for their solitude.

(from In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, by Elizabeth George)

    7*/10.  The full review is here.
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