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★★ from Laura Hartland on September 17, 2017

A disappointment-purchase at your own risk.

I must begin by saying I've enjoyed many of Ms. James' Regency Romances. I especially appreciate her varied and sophisticated characters. I purchased Four Nights With the Duke on impulse one night when I had nothing to read, and lived to regret it. I don't mind a bad boy hero, one who's rough around the edges and needs a major life shake-up to make him redeem himself. However, I found Vander, the featured duke in this novel, to be a crude, nonredeemable boor. From the first adult encounter between the hero/heroine, he behaved like a drunken sot (whipping out his male appendage in an effort to either impress or intimidate the heroine, I couldn't tell which) and it never let up. He insulted and borderline abused Mia throughout the story. She was almost worse because she took this treatment, which frequently reduced her to tears, only to allow the hero to rut with her like a base creature of the forest (but I apologize to forest creatures everywhere, he was worse), sometimes up against a wall. No woman who felt angry and hurt would ever do that. Not ever.
A prime example of this entire novel can be summed up in the following internal dialogue belonging to the hero (paraphrased, since I can't bear to go back through this read for the exact wording): talking about effing his duchess meant the same thing to him as saying he loved her. Enough?
Enough.


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Four Nights with the Duke Desperate Duchesses Book 8 edition by Eloisa James Romance eBooks Reviews

Delightful story, one I could not put down until it was done. I even had to keep my next to the stove so I could keep reading while I cooked. (The is fine, I didn't spill anything on it.) Mia Carrington and Vander Brody, Duke of Pindar, are on opposite sides of an old scandal. Her father was the long-time paramour of his mother, and to make things worse, Vander's mother died in the arms of her lover. To make things even worse than that, his father, the former Duke of Pindar, was an actual lunatic, spending time in and out of an asylum. The two children grew up fending off incessant taunts. As a fifteen-year-old, Mia's poem about the gorgeous young Vander is passed around to a group of young men, and roundly taunted. With her hiding behind the sofa in the room, listening to the taunts.

Fast forward 13 years, and Mia must marry, and marry quickly. We don't know the whys and wherefores just yet, but her need is so dire that she takes a letter that serves as excellent blackmail and asks Vander to marry her. Each time a new complication came up, I wondered, how is the author going get them out of this? And each time, I was delighted. For example, Vander (who never bothered to read her explanation) finds out - on the wedding day - the rest of her plan. Which did not actually include a real marriage.

There is a delightful uncle who may or may not be a drunk, a scheming truly villainous villain, disapproving friends, Mia's former fiance who mysteriously disappeared, and a novel that Mia is supposed to be writing. In fact, that novel-in-a-novel was a wonderful interlude. I am amazed and impressed with the way it was incorporated into the book. Both as a vehicle for Mia's frustration and as insight into the way an author's mind works, it succeeds on every level, IMHO. Anyone who has ever written, or tried to write. a book that refused to cooperate will sympathize. And for the ones who simply wonder what makes writers tick, enjoy!

Eloisa James has a new fan!
I really enjoyed the story especially for its brilliant portrayal of male conceit, and heroine's ability to hold her own in its face without coming off as a shrew. I also liked that she was a successful novelist; an income from writing that exceeded that of an earldom was no small achievement. It required perseverance, perceptiveness, and no small amount of intelligence. These facets of her character were revealed throughout the story while she was dealing with a temperamental horse, suppressing pretentions of a servant or blackmailing the hero to secure the guardianship of her nephew.

Given their rocky history, it was no wonder he misconstrued her reasons forcing the marriage. His internal dialogue, as he was considering her proposal, was priceless. It was surpassed only by his search for the perfect way convince her of his love. For the fans of grand romantic gestures - I count myself among their number - on the scale of one-to-ten, the final scene was an eleven.

So far, the second generation of Desperate Duchesses has given the original six a run for their money. As for me, the release date of the third installment, Seven Minutes in Heaven, cannot come soon enough.
I have not wrote a review in quite some time on a book but this is one of those books that just lingers on one's mind. I enjoyed this book so much, I could hardly put it down. It really was an attention grabbing book right from the beginning. *** Spoiler**** Without giving too much away, Vander (hero) and Mia (heroine) have known each other since their teens as their parents were carrying on an affair. Starts out with Mia who wrote a love poem for Vander, and then him and a couple of friends were carrying on about it not knowing she was hiding in the library listening to them. She confronts them or surprises them more like it from her hiding spot and basically tells them off. Then, skip forward 13 years and she is desperate to save her nephew from his horrid Uncle, so she blackmails Vander into marriage. They get married, & then it just gets better and better. I can't wait to read the other two books in the series (this is book #2) as I kind of went out of order. This is one of my favorite authors and I have enjoyed all her books so far. The author is very talented and I look forward to more of her books to come.
★★ from Laura Hartland on September 17, 2017

A disappointment-purchase at your own risk.

I must begin by saying I've enjoyed many of Ms. James' Regency Romances. I especially appreciate her varied and sophisticated characters. I purchased Four Nights With the Duke on impulse one night when I had nothing to read, and lived to regret it. I don't mind a bad boy hero, one who's rough around the edges and needs a major life shake-up to make him redeem himself. However, I found Vander, the featured duke in this novel, to be a crude, nonredeemable boor. From the first adult encounter between the hero/heroine, he behaved like a drunken sot (whipping out his male appendage in an effort to either impress or intimidate the heroine, I couldn't tell which) and it never let up. He insulted and borderline abused Mia throughout the story. She was almost worse because she took this treatment, which frequently reduced her to tears, only to allow the hero to rut with her like a base creature of the forest (but I apologize to forest creatures everywhere, he was worse), sometimes up against a wall. No woman who felt angry and hurt would ever do that. Not ever.
A prime example of this entire novel can be summed up in the following internal dialogue belonging to the hero (paraphrased, since I can't bear to go back through this read for the exact wording) talking about effing his duchess meant the same thing to him as saying he loved her. Enough?
Enough.