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Summary: For Tom and Lina!
Review: I pretty much hated this book. Rees was one of the most unappealing heroes ever created and Helene was Ugh! I couldn't stand either one of them. I felt they really deserved each other, as opposed to messing two other people up. I cringed when Helene got hooked up with Mayne. Now, he was delicious. I hope his story will be forthcoming. I actually liked the romance between Tom and Lina better than the main couple. I don't know what it was, but Rees and Helene just never triggered my imagination. From the description of Rees, I got a not very appealing image of him. I think what I really disliked about Helene were her friends. I am not an Esme fan. In fact, I think she is one of the worst female characters ever written. I like my heroines to have some principles and I don't think Esme has any. I try to never read anything with her in it, so I am sure that colored my impression of this book because she was a prominent figure in it. This is almost as bad as James' other book about sluts-- A Wild Pursuit. I hated that one, too.
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Summary: Wicked? Well - more weak than wicked.
Review: Eloisa James has a witty style, but I find myself disappointed in this book. The fourth of a quartet, I was hoping for more zing in Rees and Helene. Ok, so I know from past books that Rees is an ass and Helene can be a touch judgemental, but here was a chance for them to shine.I agree with other reviews that the secondary romance of Rees' brother was much more interesting. I found that for all the build up, there was definitely something lacking in the final tale. Helene finally breaks loose from her shell, determined to have a child no matter what her ass of a husband thinks. He's had a bevy of women in his bed. Not to mention that he's installed his latest mistress in what are supposed to be HER chambers in the house they shared before their youthful marrige fell apart. What we have learned from encounters and hints in the past books is that Helene loved her husband and they ran off together, creating a scandal in their youth. But neither of them were happy about it afterwards. Apparently young Rees was quite bad in bed. Quite. (No wonder Helene was never tempted to stray.... She thought it was no good anyway.) After all her friends find love and start families, Helene decides to fight for her dream of having a child. She wants a divorce. Too bad Rees won't allow it. Too costly and scandalous. (Of course, this from a man with a mistress in his wife's chambers.) After Rees finds out she is determined to have a child no matter what, he decides he better take some action. What follows is not quite what I hoped. Instead of making him beg or work for her love again, Helene follows his dictates. Instead of experimenting with the power she has discovered she has over other men, she gives into his demands. Rees is not really a likeable man. I was hoping that with Helene coming out of her shell, she would be given a chance to test her wings. Maybe I was looking for redemption in Rees case. I give her a 3 only because I know she is capible of a better story. Eloisa James is clever, creative and witty. I look forward to more books from her. I'd say that this one is not the best one she's written, but I'm definitely waiting to read more from her.
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Summary: an interesting premise
Review: Forget the extremes of characterization and give this book four stars if only for its daring premise: the hero is not an accomplished lover, and the heroine is not unknowingly sensual or alluring-- at least until she is transformed as a result of a temper tantrum. Any admirer of this genre will soon surmise that all the males in romance fiction are masterful and considerate lovers. Makes the average female wish she might have been born in another era. True, these English males are prone to make stupid mistakes because they fail to communicate at some dramatic juncture, and thereby hangs the suspense of the tale. This is a nice read because it goes against the grain. This hero is clueless about what women want from a man. The heroine is much more in line with the stereotyped female of her era--clueless about sex and love between men and women, though she does have female friendships down pretty solid. The funniest quirk of the book is, it begins with letters dated in March 1816 and ends, presumably a year (or 3?) later, with letters dated January 1816. Editors slipped up there. This, however, is not critical to the plot, which constitutes a mild summer suntan read. If your budget is tight, get it used and enjoy!
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Summary: Not quite
Review: Having read Eloisa James' last book "A Wild Pursuit" and finding it thoroughly lacking, I was a bit skeptical about this one. The story is about Helene, Countess Godwin, and her estranged husband Rees. She wants a divorce, he doesn't, she changes her mind and now wants a baby, he agrees only if she moves in with him. While the scenes between Rees and Helene were intriguing, Eloisa James left me wanting more; I found myself skipping the pages that did not involve them (and believe me, there were a few).
All in all, "Your Wicked Ways" was a good romance, I could feel the chemistry between the two protaganists, and I would have given this book a full 5 stars if only the author had concentrated more on them and less on Helene's friends.
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Summary: Not quite
Review: Having read Eloisa James' last book "A Wild Pursuit" and finding it thoroughly lacking, I was a bit skeptical about this one. The story is about Helene, Countess Godwin, and her estranged husband Rees. She wants a divorce, he doesn't, she changes her mind and now wants a baby, he agrees only if she moves in with him. While the scenes between Rees and Helene were intriguing, Eloisa James left me wanting more; I found myself skipping the pages that did not involve them (and believe me, there were a few).
All in all, "Your Wicked Ways" was a good romance, I could feel the chemistry between the two protaganists, and I would have given this book a full 5 stars if only the author had concentrated more on them and less on Helene's friends.
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Summary: One of the most unappealing heroes ever. . .
Review: Helene Godwin has been living apart from her husband for over nine years, ostensibly because of physical incompatibility. She believes herself to be frigid and unappealing to men, since her husband had found her insufficient and replaced her with opera dancers and mistresses.
However, all of her friends are having children, and Helene sees her biological clock ticking away. When her husband refuses to give her a divorce, she decides to have an affair. Her friends help make over her wardrobe and her makeup, and sure enough, at the next ball, she draws men like flies. Including her selfish jerk of a husband, who decides that if she's that determined to have a child, it might as well be his, since it will be his heir.
Amazingly, in all these years, the selfish jerk has still not learned how to satisfy a woman. And he has the nerve to insist that Helene move back to their home for a month while they are trying to conceive a child. . . as long as she occupies the nursery, because the master bedchamber is already occupied by his longtime mistress!
Why would anyone with any dignity accept these terms? I have to admit that this situation spoiled the rest of the book for me. Although the author tried to ameliorate Rees' character by explaining that he was a virgin when they were first married and that he really wasn't all that crazy about his mistress (who, by the way, wasn't REALLY a doxy after all, despite the fact that she had lived with him as his lover for several years), it wasn't convincing.
Come on. This guy sounds like a politician I knew once. Hardly a romantic hero. Don't waste your time with this one.
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Summary: whole premise was a big turn off
Review: I am fearful of starting to say what I really think of this book, because I just feel so insulted with the plot, worse, with the characters. This writer turns a pretty pen, but she really misses the boat where drawing characters that make you care about them. That a woman would put up with years of this humiliation is beyond me. And don't say times were like that. Does not matter, no woman accept the humiliation of sleeping in the same house with her husband's mistress - relegated to the nursery like some poor relation? I am suprised he did not ask her to tend the chamberpots while at it! What they don't have a descent room for her? He cannot afford to quietly squirrel his paramour away as men did? He does not want the scandal of divorce, but having his mistress living with his wife would not cause the biggest scandal of all? That just insults the readers intelligence. I just got so furious with her shoddy treatment; angry she could accept this. The fact the heroine would put up with it and still love him is beyond belief. I wanted to take a pistol and put him out of her and our misery. Possible take on Helene, too! Maybe using the book for target practice would release some of my frustration. I just utterly hated him and I felt no pity for this dumb heroine, because she accepted it. No pride, no spine. The book is just so infuriating. I did not care for this author's A Wild Pursuit, but gave her the benefit of the doubt and thought maybe, since she is a good technical writer, this one would be better. Boy, was I wrong.
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Summary: Dreadful people...I hated them!
Review: I don't often really hate books. But this one earned that prize. I am sorry, I don't care how well written a book is that a heroine would accept this sort of treatment from the man and still love him - forgettaboutit!! Seriously, Rees and Helene get married and wedding night is the pits. So they go their seperate ways for TEN YEARS. Rees still loves her deep down. HE DOES? Does not stop him from moving his mistress into his home. Finally AFTER TEN YEARS, Helene decides she had enough of this nonsense and wants a divorce. First sense she has showed the whole book. Rees cannot have her besmirch his name, so he refuses. Helene decided to get some man to do the dirty just so she can have a child, so she picks out a masked ball. Oh, yeah, great way to pick out the father of your child, in a masked ball! But guess what, she ends up with Jerk Husband. Then she AGREES - does this woman have NO sense, to move into the same house as her jerk husband - who still loves her but won't tell her because he thinks she hates him (GOOD GUESS I SURE HATED HIM!!) - AND HIS MISTRESS. What women would agree to sleep in the bloody nursery while he sleeps with his mistress in the master suite? Then we are further pressed to have Rees's brother and his mistress get in the mood for love.... This whole book is CORKED BRAIN and the characters REPULSIVE.
This book deserve NO Stars and I shall NEVER EVER pick up another book by this writer.
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Summary: Sexy and fun!
Review: I don't usually write reviews, but I was checking to see if Eloisa James had written any other books -- I adored this book! I didn't find anything lacking: it was a really sexy, funny book that sent me straight to the computer to see whether she'd written any that I haven't already bought--she hasn't :(
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Summary: A fresh romance!
Review: I enjoyed this book for exactly some of the same reasons other reviewers disliked it. It had a very fresh premise and it kept me turning the pages because I honestly didn't know what was going to happen next. Helene starts out as a very sympathetic character and I felt that Rees was going to end up that way. Eloisa James never disappoints. Her lovely prose has such a ring of authenticity that you almost feel as if her characters and their situations could have really existed in Regency England. A fabulous read!
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