Desperate Duchesses (7 books in series)
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review 1: Review taken from my blog in August 2011 (Blog Post #157) after borrowing the book from the local library.5+ stars all the way, this was a truly excellent read.Simeon Duke of Cosway has been away exploring the source of the Blue Nile (and other exoctic places) for a very long tim...
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review 1: Eloisa James has perfected her formula with another rousing historical romance. Beautiful, independent Lady Xenobia, daughter of a marquess, and in the vanguard of interior decoration as a career, has firm ideas about marriage. Se's decided that when she marries, her husband must...
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review 1: The first book in this series was really hard to get through due to all of the character introductions. I only got through it, in fact, because I was listening to it in the car. Throughout the first book I was more intrigued by Jemma and Elijah than the actual hero and heroin so ...
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review 1: Thorn, naturally a bastard son, has decided its time to get married. He's decided Laetitia Rainsford, a kind and beautiful woman who is perhaps not so smart. Concerned, Thorn's stepmother Eleanor, hires Lady Xenobia India St. Clair to help Thorn and his abode into tip top shap...
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review 1: I must confess I was having a love-hate relationship with this series, and since it was the first series I've read by miss James also with her writing. But since I read all those glorious reviews of her fans and I was in need of a new author to love so I kept reading on.I also mu...
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review 1: I didn't enjoy this one as much because the relationship between the duke and duchess Belmont has been an ongoing subplot since the first book so I just couldn't find it as exciting since it had been so long drawn out. Also it probably doesn't help since I have read so many of th...
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review 1: The perfect kind of romance: funny, heartbreaking, incredibly sexy, ultimately heartwarming. James writes complex characters, particularly independent women, who struggle, believably, against society's restrictions and the inevitability of what the reader knows or hopes will happ...