Book Review: An Affair Before Christmas

An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When you thought you did a book review on this book, but in reality you really didn't, and so you're about to do a book review now...

Soo hi, here's a book review about eight years too late when I first started reading this book, thinking 'Oh, I've read this book and it turns out...you fucking didn't. So this book was a fast read for me, mostly because I needed something to help me get over my Matthew Clairmont addiction, but in fact...it made it a tiny bit worse because of the fact that they went to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and I cried a little because it made me think of Matthew...BUT ENOUGH ABOUT MATTHEW CLAIRMONT....

This book was honestly a trip for me. It started off with Poppy and Fletch having a sexless marriage because of Poppy's overbearing mother...and yet once again, my problem with overbearing mamas telling their daughters what to do reared up big time and then Poppy falling out of love with the Duke of Fletcher because of her mama. So she moved out of her own home to live with Jemma (and honestly, lemme say this real quick: Jemma, Duchess of Beaumont, is giving me hella Lady Rosalie vibes and inspiration for her for my own Christmaswip-more on that on my blog later) and slowly she starts to turn into a Naturalist and finding her own self, letting go of everything her mama told her to do and just...be Perdita. Not a puppet her mother wanted her to be.

Fletch and Poppy kept thinking that they didn't love each other, they will forever be in a sexless marriage and will never have children. Fletch though Poppy hated sex, but it turns out that she listened to her damned mama about sex that she didn't even enjoy it...until that nigh at the Beaumont house, where Poppy started feeling those urges for him again, and decided to tell her friends that she wanted to seduce Fletch into bed like a Frenchwoman..well, after her mother went into a nunnery because someone thought that she was in love with a young man, then she felt those feeling for Fletch, and she seduced her husband like she was a Frenchwoman.

But the one odd thing in the story was the Duke of Villiers and his wound he got from the Earl of Gryffon, and how Miss Charlotte Tatlock pretty much brought him back to life, snapping at him and thinking he was dead and all...but all in all it was a really good book, even when Poppy and Fletch made love in a little bunny cave outside, I think? But it was really good and it gave me a lot of inspiration for my Christmaswip.

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Book Review: A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James

A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book...is beautifully written and it made me cry to the point that I almost had to put the book down. It also made me a little bit mad, because I wanted to shove Kate and Gabriel's heads together and yell, "NOW, KISS, GOTDANGIT!!" But in all honestly, I loved this book, like I always do Mrs. Eloisa James's novels, and it makes me want to read more of them.

What I Liked About the Book: The characters, oddly enough. I loved Kate, Gabriel, Victoria, Algie, and Lady Worthe-Henry. These characters are my favorite ones...I knew the reason why I loved them, but I lost the thought as I'm sitting here writing this review. I also loved the dresses and how slow Kate and Gabriel fell in love, even though she was there to pretend to be Victoria. And I also loved those three dogs-including Freddie.

The One Thing I Disliked About the Book: The stepmama. Good LORD I wanted to strangle that woman...but thank god she appeared in the beginning of the book and was mentioned throughout the rest.

At first...I didn't ship Kate and Gabriel. I really didn't-she was a lady but worked for her stepmama (as the hundreds of Cinderellas did), he was a prince who was supposed to marry a Russian Princess...but then as I kept reading, I slowly, slowly, slowly started to ship them. And now they're my OTP-right next to Elijah and Jemma and the Duke of Fletcher and Poppy.

Also....I CRIED. THE ENDING, THE MIDDLE OF THE BOOK....ALL OF THE FEELS.

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Book Purse-3/21/2015

HOLY CRAP I haven't done one of these in so long! Mainly because my camera had been getting on my nerve and that the only camera that I have is my cellphone :( So today I went to the library and checked out some new books and I though I share with you what I got :)

 

1. The Virgin's Secret by Victoria Alexander
2. A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James
3. The Ghost King by R.A. Salvatore

 

New Spring: The Novel-The Wheel of Time in the Beginning by Robert Jordan

 

Sarah Brightman: Dreamchaser

Character Casting for 'This Duchess of Mine' by Eloisa James

Hello all!

So I have been thinking about the casting of the two characters (aka lovers) in This Duchess of Mine and the more I think about it, the more it came to me. You know those videos on YouTube about character castings of who people think who's who in the books? Well I got to thinking one day about who the main characters (Jemma and Elijah-Jemijah) and I thought, who better to play the two than Natalie Portman and Daniel Gillies?

At first, I didn't know who would play Elijah in the book but I kept hearing Daniel Gillies' voice as Elijah from TVD saying everything Elijah said in the book. 

Book Review: This Duchess of Mine by Eloisa James

No man can resist Jemma's sensuous allure . . . Except her own husband

Wedding bells celebrating the arranged marriage between the lovely Duchess of Beaumont and her staid, imperturbable duke had scarcely fallen silent when a shocking discovery sent Jemma running from the ducal mansion. For the next nine years she cavorted abroad, creating one delicious scandal after another (if one is to believe the rumors).

Elijah, Duke of Beaumont, did believe those rumors.

But the handsome duke needs an heir, so he summons his seductive wife home. Jemma laughs at Elijah's cool eyes and icy heart--but to her secret shock, she doesn't share his feelings. In fact, she wants the impossible: her husband's heart at her feet.

But what manner of seduction will make a man fall desperately in love . . . with his own wife?

(from goodreads)

Everytime I read an Eloisa James novel, I get a smile on my face and I enjoy the book, and this book was amazing. I felt sorry for Elijah because he is having heart problems and throughout the book but at the end his heart problems go away. Also the one thing that confused me throughout this whole entire book was the playing chess in bed. Like seriously, who does that? Why Jemma and Elijah does!

This book also has a little story about the Duke of Villiers and how he's trying to find six of his bastard children. He found the first one, Tobias aka Juby and now he's looking for the rest of his children including a wife...and that would be in the next book of the Desperate Duchesses series. 

Also this book shows (or tells) how Jemma and Elijah "wooed" each other and I honestly like it.

What's in My Book Purse 9/17/2012

I went to the library today and got two more books that I'll be reviewing really soon once I get done with the last book from the last What's in My Book Purse, which is Eloisa James' "This Dutchess of Mine". So what two books made it in my purse this month? (pictures taken by me)

Debbie Macomber-6 Rainier Drive-I've read one of her books and was hooked quick. Since I never finished it, I went to the library and tried to look for it again. But sadly someone checked it out so I got this one instead.

F. Scott Fitzgerald-The Great Gatsby-Oh yeah. I've always wanted to read this because I've never read it before and I wanna read it so I can see the movie in December. 

Book I'm still reading:

Eloisa James-This Dutchess of Mine-Nearly done with this book and I might end up reviewing it tomorrow depending how tomorrow goes.