by Eloisa James
Fool for Love (Duchess Quartet Book 2) by Eloisa James 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 whisp...
Usually I rather like Eloisa James' novels as well-written fluff, full of witty adulterers and scandalous rakes and delectable descriptions of round gowns, towering Georgian wigs, and malfunctioning 19th-century toilets. But other times they are simply too silly to entertain: when the ridiculous ...
My rating is more of a 2.5 - 3. I can't decide really. I enjoyed the characters and the plot. James' characters are very flawed and the situations they are in are less than ideal. The courtship was rather fast between the main characters, Simon and Henrietta. There is significantly more developm...
Audiobook. I also have the paperback.3.5 starsI liked this book a little more than the first book. Henrietta has a hip problem that everyone thinks killed her mother when she was born. So although she's a catch because she's beautiful and loaded because she can't have children and thereby can't h...
While this book is definitely about Henrietta and Simon, it's also about Esme and Sebastian... unfortunately, because it's Henrietta's and Simon's story, we're left hanging with Esme and Sebastian. I can only hope that the next book in the series ("A Wild Pursuit") will tell us more.My recommendatio...
I really enjoyed reading this book, especially the intense interactions between Esme and Sebastian - pure bliss for the reader (their story is the one that starts in the first book of this quartet and comes to completion in the third book). Henrietta and Darby are a terrific couple as well, and ther...
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