Y Eloisa James lo hace de nuevo :D Cuando La Bella domestico a La BestiaUn titulo que le va como anillo al dedo, Piers sin duda cumple todos los requisitos de bestia no todo en su fisico pero si en su acida prsonalidad La Piscina!! Esa Bendita piscina!!! La chispante personalidad de Linnet realme...
Seperti biasanya, James membuat percakapan yang, pada awalnya, membuatku sulit untuk mengerti sehingga aku sering berpikir, "mungkin seperti inilah cara berbicara orang Inggris, mengucapkan satu namun artinya lain lagi."Di bagian 'bertemu kembali' rasanya cepat sekali walau sudah 41 hari, tapi su...
One of my 2014 reading goals was to read a romance novel. I picked The Ugly Duchess because I thought I would enjoy the Regency setting and because it got excellent reviews.What I learned is that I do not like romance novels. This book is quite well written and seems well researched. I might have...
I loved the books in this series so far, especially #2 and couldn't wait to start the next one. I'm so disapointed right now and skipping through the last quarter of the book to get to the end. If this book is your first romance by miss James. Please don't judge all of them by this one.Spoilers a...
the plot is interesting but the characters are just too shallow .... the story goes too slow in the middle.... there was no tangible progress......the hero is looking for a wife to be agood mother to his children..... yet at the same time we see nothing of his relation with his children we see no...
This book has an issue, adultery, that I don't care for. However, I did really like the book. The heroine was enamored with her sudden husband, who then rebuffed her in a manner that led her to leave for France for years. While there she developed herself as a desirable woman, only returning home...
In the wake of An Affair Before Christmas, I started in on this book with hope. Now that I've finished it, well. I liked the main characters in this book much better when they were secondary characters in An Affair Before Christmas. But this book still gave me some measure of contentment in the e...
I've put off reading this because, frankly, I hate the cover. I know it's won awards, but I there's just something about it...I picked this book up and read it straight through in one day. It was a lovely story, replete with Shakespeare, kilts, a brogue, a red-haired hero who is (*gasp*) a virgin...
I read this book after having it recommended by a customer in the library, and I'm very pleased I acted upon the recommendation! A fast paced plot, believable characters, a most enjoyable Regency romp. Very entertaining, it pulled me through it in a matter of a few days - I even spent a whole e...
WOW! I LOVE this book!! Eloise James has hit all the right marks for me in this one. I've picked up her books before because they were always cheap and cheerful reads on Kobo but "When Beauty Tamed the Beast" is the first I've actively made sure I bought because the story really appealed to me an...
This book is equally as awesome as the cover is appalling (and that is saying something). The author took the character from House and remade him as the main character in a romance novel, and it was SOO much fun to read. Piers' snarky wit had me laughing the whole book through. And the heroine...
I got about 4/5 of the way through this book before I finally just couldn't stand it any more. This is seriously one of the most awful romance novels I've read in quite some time. Gabriel is an arrogant, womanizing jerk with no redeeming qualities. The whole idea of a man alternately dining wi...
3-3.5 stars...Good, but not great...I had heard a lot about Ms James fairy-tale retelling romances and when I saw this on the libraries audio collection, I gave it a try. I liked it and it had some humor. I liked the Cinderella-y parts of the story. She did a great job at reinventing the timeless...
This was my introduction to Eloisa James, the book's description interested me and the author was recommended to me before. I genuinely enjoyed the story and the protagonist was quite interesting to me. Unfortunately the plot was a bit weird, for lack of a better word. Years pass in the span of 1...
The next fabulous romance by *New York Times* bestselling author Eloisa James.Having made a fortune, Thorn Dautry, the powerful bastard son of a duke, decides that he needs a wife. But to marry a lady, Thorn must acquire a gleaming, civilized façade, the specialty of Lady Xenobia India.Exquisite,...
Suka... ringan untuk dibaca, menarik utk diselesaikan. Tumben2an gw bisa suka sama cerita yang ditulis Eloisa James yang biasa membuat gw mengantuk dan bosan. Buku ini satu pengecualian krn membuat gw tertarik dan bisa menyelesaikan tanpa menskip apapun. Sayang jalan ceritanya terlalu ringkas, mg...
Another great little fun & short addition to Mrs James' Fairy Tale series. Easily a 4 star read & actually might have been a 4.5 or better if it had been longer, there by giving more time & detail to thoroughly enjoy the hero & heroine's chemistry. These two caused sparks & fire. Cyrus is a logic...
I really enjoyed this book. I was a little surprised at how fast the romance progressed but I did like how He realized what he had lost and decided that He could do something about it. I liked his honesty with her when he realized his mistake. I thought the ending was a little fast. I would h...
The moment I started reading this book, I had a hunch that it will a good read. I was wrong. Good was an understatement. Exceptionally great would cover the feeling but not quite. I might need a few hundred synonyms of great and exceptional to describe the book.Lady India and Lord Thorn are inter...
Phillipa Damson has been engaged to a Baronet since she was a child. Now that the wedding it drawing near, she knows she will never love Rodney and cannot marry him. Deciding to take matters into her own hands, Phillipa runs away to a nearby castle and poses as a nursemaid for the sickly baby at ...
I have always loved fairy tales but I thought James really pushed to make this a princess and the pea story. I loved that the character thought she was "fat" and didn't appreciate her voluptuous curves until she met a duke who might marry her sister. Olivia has been groomed since birth to be t...
My first Eloisa James book and... It was ok. To be honest, I was expecting a lot more, possibly because Ms.James is such a big name in the historical romance genre. I felt that the romance between the two main characters, Quin and Olivia was a bit too forced, the ending was a bit too neat for my ...
In Storming the Castle you meet a secondary character whose story was told in Kiss at Midnight. I have always loved fairy tales and am enjoying Eloisa James' versions of old favorites. Wick was the "butler" whose was born on the wrong side of the blanket. As brother to the prince he sacrificed ...
Setting: Pomeroy Castle, Lancashire; Little Ha’penny, LancashireTheme: Stable boy and the princess; Characters:Miss Philippa Damson – a lady, determined, lost her mother when young, loved by her father… but when 9 year old Rodney declared he would marry her when she was 7, her fate seemed set – a...
Holly: In part one, Grace spent years writing to Colin, building castles in the sky about a relationship that didn’t really exist. She made herself believe she was the only thing keeping him sane at sea, when he couldn’t even be bothered to visit her when he returned to shore.At the end of part o...
Genevieve is sweet but naive. This naivety employed reads as slightly dim-witted making her a hard character to love. She is most endearing and relatable when her passion and free-spirited true self goes unchecked. When Tobias returns the fun really begins. The best reading is when the young ...
The book is a far cry from the romance novels I usually read. The hero isn't some boring guy that just runs around being a rake. Instead, he's traveled the world, found the source of the Blue Nile, and most strangely for a romantic hero, he's a virgin at age 29. He's returned from his world tour ...
I read it faster than the previous ones because I am very interested in Jemma and her duke even though they were not the main pairing. As for Isidore and her virgin husband? I wished Isidore retained all that spunk from the previous books and had taught her very oblivious and selfish husband a le...
I can tell that this is an earlier work of James's. It's a good read, but not quite as strong as some of her other stories.I thought the letters at the start of the story were a little excessive. I would also have liked to see a little more during the ending scene when they confess their love f...
Fueled by the knowledge that notoriety is better than failure, witty, unconventional Josie does what no proper young lady should--she challenges fate. She discards her corset and flirts outrageously. She attends the horse races and allows an arrogant rakehell to whisk her behind the stables for a...
The Essex Sisters I loved this series as a whole. You could take the story line and plop it down in any timeline. The issues the sisters faced were struggles that women, and men, go through every day. Self image, alcoholism, grief. Individually, each story was great in its own right, but tog...
Imogen, Lady Maitland, has decided to dance on the wild side. After all, she's in the delicious position of being able to take a lover. A discreet male who knows just when to leave in the morning.But Lady Maitland is still under the watchful eye of her former guardian, the wildly untamed Rafe, th...
"Welcome to a world of reckless sensuality and glittering sophistication...of dangerously handsome gentlemen and young ladies longing to gain a title . . . of games played for high stakes, including--on occasion--a lady's virtue." A marquess's sheltered only daughter, Lady Roberta St. Giles fall...
Mein zweites Eloisa James Anlauf ... Zum Buch: Gina ist seit vielen Jahren mit Cam verheiratet, doch wurde die Ehe niemals vollzogen, da er noch in der Hochzeitsnacht flüchtete. Es sei gesagt, dass sein Vater ihn überredet hatte, die damals 12-Jährige zu heiraten, mit der er zuvor viel Zeit, sein...
Helene, the Countess Godwin, knows there is nothing more unbearably tedious than a virtuous woman. After all, she's been one for ten long years while her scoundrel of a husband lives with strumpets and causes scandal after scandal. So she decides it's time for a change -- she styles her hair in t...
People magazine named Eloisa James' novel Midnight Pleasures “Page Turner of the Week” and raved “Romance writing does not get much better than this.” Now the acclaimed author returns with another sumptuous tale of passion and misadventure in Regency England.... Gabrielle Jerningham cherishes th...
Nothing is more seductive than temptation.Reckless desire sends Charlotte Daicheston into the garden with a dashing masked stranger. He's powerful, unforgettable, a devastatingly handsome footman who lures her--not against her will--into a grand indiscretion at a masquerade ball. Then he vanishes...
Could it be that she wanted his kiss as much as she longed to give hers? It is whispered behind the fans of London's dowagers and in the corners of fashionable ballrooms that scandal follows willfully wild Lady Beatrix Lennox wherever she goes. Three years before, the debutante created a sensati...
The Woman Lady Henrietta Maclellan longs for the romantic swirl of a London season. But as a rusticating country maiden, she has always kept her sensuous nature firmly under wraps—until she meets Simon Darby. Simon makes her want to whisper promises late at night, exchange kisses on a balcony, re...
Una chispeante comedia romántica de enredo. Casarse cuanto antes y casarse bien: ésa es la meta de la joven huérfana Tess Essex. Sólo de esa forma, podrá encontrar los maridos más adecuados para sus tres hermanas: la hermosa Annabel, la romántica Imogen y la pequeña Josie. Sin más dote que un cab...
Bennett’s dining room. “Apparently, His Grace didn’t care to be seated with mere mortals,” Mr. Kestril remarked. Had the duke overturned that wineglass on purpose? Could he truly have been so irritated at not having been granted the precedence he considered his rightful due that he’d left a dinne...
He rains insults on the man who jilted her. ~ what if Frederic happens on the castle, and is invited to dinner to meet Lord Plum’s fiancée: Flora! Count Frederic was appalled to find that the lovely, modest, artless, bashful, yet warm-hearted girl he jilted at the altar has become a y...
The hooped petticoat was more of a problem. “How do you sit down in this?” he asked Mrs. Ferrers, the house keeper. “You’ve nothing but small side panniers,” she observed. “Now those of twenty years ago were something terrible, they were. This will do little more than give you a woman’s shape.”Fi...
Then she sat down by the fire. Her hair was so curly that she had to finger-comb the strands to dry them. How did an illicit rendezvous take place? Oliver had raised her hand to his lips when she said goodnight, and then asked quietly, eyes very bright, “Tonight, my lady?...
Sharkton, and the children topped the little hill, Lyddie drifting behind them like a kite on a string. Her mind was such a whirl that she said nothing even when they entered the courtyard. Her husband believed the children were illegitimate. He hadn’t known her name. He t...
She is a chaplain attached to the search-and-rescue department of the Maine Forest Service, and her book starts when she suddenly finds herself a widow with four small children. I started crying on cue, until a little further on in that chapter, when her seven-year-old son suggested that his fath...
He had dreamed of Britain’s past, when men were warriors and Vikings ruled the shores, fancying himself at the helm of a longboat, ferociously tattooed like an ancient Scottish warrior. At eighteen he was a pirate, and at twenty-two he captained his own ship, the Flying Poppy. By a few years late...
Patrick lay in a tangle of faintly musty sheets, only the tip of one ear showing in his mop of black curls. For a moment Sophie paused, curling her bare toes against the cool stone floor. Then she quietly pulled on the gown she’d worn yesterday and struggled to fasten the back without Simone’s he...
He had grown even taller. His shoulders were very wide, and his cheekbones much more pronounced. Her family flew from their chairs and everyone clustered around, exclaiming at the fact he’d been made a lieutenant. Grace didn’t quite dare join them, but all day she secretly...