Eloisa james this duchess of mine epub

Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Ugly Duchess Fairy Tales, 4 written by Eloisa James which was published in How can she dare to imagine he loves her… when all London calls her The Ugly Duchess? Theodora Saxby is the last woman anyone expects the gorgeous James Ryburn, heir to the Duchy of Ashbrook, to marry. Still, the tabloids give the marriage six months.

Still, they kept to separate bedchambers. Too busy to seduce the Duchess of Beaumont? It had been her experience that men were driven by lust above duty. And she had been assured by male attention from age sixteen that she was precisely what a lustful man would like to find in his bed. She had blue eyes, hair of a deep golden color, a very elegant nose she particularly liked her nose , and crimson lips. True, the crimson color resulted from lavish applications of lip rouge, but if one were lucky enough not to have a thin hard mouth, one might as well draw attention to it.

And at twenty-eight, she still had the allure of youth, together with a sheen of sophistication and wit that no sixteen-year-old could command. There was nothing sensual about the word wife. Jemma gave a little shudder. Wives nagged and complained. Wives wore little caps on their fading hair and suffered from broadening hips due to child-bearing. It was mortifying to be a wife. Even worse, a wife whose husband was reluctant to take her to bed. It was definitely a new, and rather disconcerting, sensation, to feel that she was more interested in bedding a man than the reverse.

She was used to men trying to seduce her. During the years she lived at Versailles, gentlemen considered her ripe for the plucking, given that her husband lived in England. They swiveled before her to display a powerful thigh, flaunt an embroidered coat or an enameled snuff box. They dropped roses, plums, and poems at her doorstep.

She smiled, enticed, laughed, dismissed. She dressed to amuse herself, and to dazzle the court. She dressed for power and admiration.

She wanted all the passion and energy her husband devoted to the House of Lords, to the fate of England. The pace was too slow, the issues too repetitive, and the characters just I felt really sad for Gemma and Elijah but it was just too unrealistic.

They say they cared for each other but their actions speak otherwise. After catching Elijah fucking his mistress in his office, Gemma flee to France. Elijah, feeling guilty, let her go. Meanwhile, Gemma languished in France waiting for Elijah to fetch her. It was a sad event. I just could not like Elijah despite his various good works and revisionist account of that event. Everything that came after to mend his character seemed too forced and insincere. Although it was a relief to know that Elijah stayed celibate after the event, it was just too convenient.

Apparently, Gemma had two lovers, which was also unrealistic. Everything about the novel felt too forced and disconnected. It should have worked but did not. Elijah seems like a fine person but it felt way too forced for him to have stayed celibate. Apparently, he eschewed the company of women after Gemma. Additionally, he felt sated with Gemma that morning but continued on with his mistress the next. If he is so noble, then why not stick with his wife?

I get that it is a common practice to keep a mistress but the main character of Elijah is nobility. It just did not mesh together. Also, he apparently loved his mistress but when he speaks about her trade, he seemed to downplay it.

Why not stick to one story? If you loved her fine. He was just so inconsistent. It was really unbelievable for me to believe that after all those years, he carried a torch for Gemma after being married for two weeks.

I liked her in previous books. She seemed to have a depth to her.