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Rated 7.2 out of 10 Statistics
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Content Advisory
Frequent Sexual Content
Frequent Coarse Language
Frequent Violence
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Overall Rating: 7.21
Average Rating: 10 (Guests), 8.13 (Members)
Ranking: #111
Rating Count: 7 (4 Guests, 4 members)
1 indicates a weighted rating.
Synopsis
"A Serialized Phantastick on The Ten Thousand Things & The One True Only"
City of Roses is about what happens when Jo Maguire, a highly strung underemployed telemarketer, meets Ysabel Perry, a princess of unspecifiable pedigree. It’s also about hearts broken cleanly and otherwise, the City of Portland, Spenser, those moments in pop songs when the bass and all of the drums except maybe a handclap suddenly drop out of the bridge leaving you hanging from a slender aching thread of melody waiting almost dreading the moment when the beat comes back, and the occasional swordfight.
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I nearly didn’t read this story the first time I came across it, because I read the first two scenes, and foresaw angst of an unpalatable nature. Then I came across it again through an ad, and kept reading. I am enjoying myself, a LOT. There is angst, but it’s working.
I am continually drawn to stories that don’t hand me the answers. That provide me with what I need to know, then let…Read More
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