WORTH MENTIONING: The epilogue has a little “in the future”ĬONNECTED BOOKS: PLEASURE FOR PLEASURE is the fourth book in the Essex Sisters series. I enjoyed that romance as well and it neatly wrapped up all the characters from the series. There is also a secondary romance involving Mayne sister. After he had been matched with so many women, I would have liked something just a little more demonstrating his devotion to Josie alone. My one quibble with the story is that I thought that Josie deserved a bit more in her happy ending with Mayne. Josie is so full of life, that she pulls Mayne with her. Mayne has been bored with life, not truly engaging with life. Yet, by the time the big moment comes at the end of the book, it is clear that these two are perfect for one another. One of the interesting parts of this book is how James has Mayne and Josie fall in love in the quiet.
She feels like an incredibly well rounded and complex character. I loved her personality which is so different from the mousey wallflower one might suspect. While she is young, I love how she is able to keep Mayne once she catches him. I honestly am usually more interested in the hero than the heroine, but this book was one where I so identified with Josie that I focused on her journey. She is tart and argumentative and simply wonderful. Josie is not a stereotypical sweet gentle miss. In this story, there is something especially lovely about the jaded Mayne falling for the lively youngest Miss Essex. OPINION: I enjoyed this book precisely because Josie, the young woman with a poor self-image of herself, the woman who is taunted by bullies having been given the moniker “the Scottish Sausage” manages to claim the man who has gotten away from every woman in this series (including Josie’s own sisters).
When Josie is almost ruined by a boorish rakehell, Mayne steps up to save her. Abandoning the possibility of a traditional courtship, Josie is persuaded by family friend, the Earl of Mayne to throw away her ugly restrictive corset, obtain some clothes to flatter her curvy figure and realize the attractive possibilities of her own body. THE STORY: Miss Josie Essex has obtained the unfortunate nickname ‘the Scottish Sausage” because of her full figure.
Published by Avon Books on November 28th 2006įINAL DECISION: Entertaining and sweet redemption for women who are more pear shaped than fashionably thin, PLEASURE FOR PLEASURE provides a warm conclusion to the Essex Sisters quartet. Pleasure for Pleasure (Essex Sisters, #4) by Eloisa James
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