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A La Recherche Du Plaisir (2014)

by Elizabeth Essex(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

229007229X (ISBN13: 9782290072295)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

J'ai Lu

series

Dartmouth Brides

review 1: Not what I was expecting...mixed feelings about the relationship between the H/h at the end, but that is besides the point. I understood very little of the characters motives, I mean the author skims over the h's motives a bit, but the H is a complete mystery. Nothing he does truly makes any sense. Every new event was unexpected, and a bit out of place. [spoiler]After faking his own death (without a compelling reason to do so) he blows his cover to go visit his widow in jail (although he doesn't intend to free her, or help her in any discernable way) she's pretty mad about being tricked and all (obv.) then, after angering her he hangs around as a groundsman for a while, even though he isn't fooling anyone, virtually everyone on the property at that point knows his true ide... morentity, so why not just sleep in his house? [/spoiler] . Just not my cup of tea..I prefer a simple, but logical, storyline to a convoluted, contradictory one.
review 2: When her childhood friend James Marlowe proposes a marriage in name only, Lizzie thinks it may be the answer to her quest for independence. What she doesn't count on is the passion James will make her feel... or the secrets he's keeping...This book was a bummer, and what it boils down to is the unhealthy relationship between the unlikable main characters. Lizzie was... hard. And selfish. And kind of a jerk. And a bit of an idiot.Marlowe was less hard, at least at first, but also kind of a jerk in his own way. At one point he does Lizzie a terrible wrong. His reasons are kind of understandable, although it's not easy to view him as a big hero afterwards. But although he's remorseful at first (achingly so - that bit was the best written and most heart wrenching part of the book) he quickly does an about-face and acts like an arse from then on. Although he's still sorry, it's more like he's not sorry to her anymore, he just feels wretched within himself, like he's selfish in his remorse. As an example of their relationship, here's a snippet from one of their sex scenes: 'She arched her back and tilted her hips, desperate to take him deeper inside her. "Damn you, Jamie Marlowe. Damn you." He wrapped his free hand across her lips and put his mouth next to her ear, his words a low, gravelly rush. "Shut up, Lizzie. Hold your tongue or I won't f*ck you anymore."'All in all, these are not two people I particularly wanted to spend time with, and that's crucial in a romance. At one point, Lizzie thinks to herself: 'Lord, but all this strategizing, all this keeping in and releasing of anger, was so infernally wearying.' Yep. That about sums it up. The sex was heated, but when you can't love the characters having it, it cools considerably. And James' domineering and bossy sides really came out then. Also, 'quim' and 'cunny' are two of the unsexiest words ever. less

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