A Wild Pursuit audiobook

So, this isn't really historical romance. It's historical chick lt. Which is pretty awesome! The romance in the blurb--Bea/Stephen--didn't feel like that large a part of the plot. Which I suppose is a flaw--I didn't think there was enough there for them to fall in loooove--but I enjoyed the book too much overall for that to bother me.The friendships are great and there are cool self-realizations for the wonderful female characters and lots of fun schemes and plots, mostly centered around poor Stephen pretending on being in a relationship with someone!And it left me really excited for the last book. I am liking this series a lot.

** spoiler alert ** This book was very satisfying for me, primarily because of Sebastian and Esme. I wondered how the author would get round all the sticky parts of their relationship and be able to allow them a measure of true happiness without too much of a sting from the "ton". Bravo! Some of the original book's comedy of errors and role-playing.And Stephen Fairfax-Lacy must be overjoyed by being the center of attention for 3 women at once! He's supposedly having an affair with Helene (Lady Godwin) while engaged to Esme and chasing Lady Beatrix! But we all know that his heart if following his body straight to Lady B. It's a saucy Benedick-Beatrice combo from "Much Ado About Nothing", but with a twist: Beatrice (Lady B) is supposedly a debauched and "experienced" young woman who is unmarriagable, but knows just how to seduce a man with her dress, her makeup, and her come-hither eyes. Benedick (Stephen) is tired of his life, which up til now has been his seat in Parliament. While she sees him as a Puritan, he sees her as the Devil - what a perfect match!And mothers make a showing here, too: Esme's mother who's way too prim and proper for her own good, and Sebastian's mother who only seems to be as rigid as her cane.Esme finally has her baby - a boy, William, who she can't love enough. Everyone is convinced William is so very like his Papa, Miles. But make sure to read the Epilogues, where a certain birth mark comes into play.Helene's estranged and wandering husband Rees also makes an appearance, as Helene attempts to make Rees jealous by throwing her "affair" with Stephen in Rees' face. Rees remarks that he wishes for what his friend Cam and his wife Gina have; Helene wants a child, but how will she ever have a child if Rees won't even touch her?At the end of this book, Helene is determined to get a child however she has to, even if it means scandal. She's almost torn apart watching Esme with William, and Gina's called Helene to stay with her for her (Gina's) last part of her pregnancy. Helene is surrounded by mothers and children, while her own arms and heart ache. From the description of the last book in this series, "Your Wicked Ways", it appears as if Helene and Rees figure dominantly. Will Helene get her child? Will she and Rees reconcile or finally just call it quits and go their separate ways? If divorce is out of the question (it takes an act of Parliament), will Helene find the lover she wants and needs to not only give her a child but to fill her heart and soul, too? Let's find out!

I read this out of order. I wish Amazon would have series lists so I don't have to spend 15 minutes figuring out order and then blindly getting whatever. Suffice it to say this book is YUMMALICIOUS! I love loved it, I liked the characters, lots of plots going on and besides a slightly weak ending it was very enjoyable. Will be reading the other 3 around these characters ASAP!

I rounded up from 3.5 stars.

Beatrix and Stephen were two wonderfully rich characters and I loved getting to know them. They had great chemistry and still managed to have a wonderful romance despite the messiness of the whole situation they were thrust into.I liked that Bea was in a lot of ways strong and wholly herself, yet was balanced by very relatable fears and experiences as well. Despite her experience she was also naïve and innocent in a lot of ways, and it was great to see Stephen bring those things out in her.Stephen was an interesting hero, coolly logical and yet inexplicably drawn to Bea despite her reputation.They had a wonderful chemistry and I enjoyed them getting to know each other. I honestly wished that Stephen and Bea could have gotten more time in a book that should have been entirely theirs. As much as I like Esme and Sebastian, and I appreciate the challenges that their relationship had, I did wonder why they just hadn’t gotten their own book? I understood that Esme was kind of the tie that binds as such between all of the books in the series, but it could have been balanced differently to achieve tell the stories in a deeper and even more enriching way. I truly think that if these two could have gotten more time (Bea and Stephen) this book would have rated even higher for me.The downer for this book, after really liking Esme for the first two books, was Esme. Pregnancy does bring about changes in your personality, which I understand, but she dithered and acted like an idiot and was wholly unlike the smart, perfectly normal woman who we started to know in the first book.It could have been better in many ways, but what I got of the primary romance was great except for the stupid fake relationships that popped up along the way, it got a little silly there with that. However, a great read nonetheless.

Lord Stephen Fairfax-Lacy bosan dengan kehidupannya sebagai politikus di majelis rendah. dia sudah berumur lebih dari 40 tahunan tapi belum punya istri dan berkeluarga. ia lalu diundang ke pestanya Lady Esme yang terkenal sebagai infamous esme. ia berpikkiran kalo disana dia akan menemukan wanita yang cocok sebagai wanita simpanan. tidak sangka ia bertemu dengan Lady Beatrix Lennox yang berpakaian minim dan memakai kosmetik diwajahnya yang cantik. seketika stephen terpikat. ia mengetahui sisi lain dari Bea saat mereka berjalan-jalan saat hujan kemudian mantel bea digigit oleh kambing. membuat bea memperlihatkan sisi polosnya. dibuku ini ada dua cerita. yaitu cerita bea dengan stephen dan cerita Esme dengan Sebastian.stephen yang sebelumnya hanya melalui hidup yang membosankan, dijadikan sebagai pasangan dua lady yang ingin membuat pasangannya cemburu.oleh esme untuk membuat sebastian marah dan cemburu, oleh helene, agar bisa mengajukan tuntutan cerai pada suaminya yang barbar dan berselingkuh selama bertahun-tahun.kejadian yang paling berkesan dibuku ini dibagian pertunjukan puisi nya di chapter hampir terakhir.bea membacakan puisi untuk stephen sehingga resmilah mr and mrs fairfax-lacy.sedangkan saat esme membaca kidung, sebastian langsung maju dan mencium esme dihadapan para penonton..bagus banget... :D

Kind of a double story going on here. A Member of Parliament who’s spent his whole life concentrating on politics is burning out and accepts an invitation to a house party in the country. There, he encounters a heavily pregnant widow, still one of the beauties of the land; her friend the wife of one of the most scandalous noblemen in the country; and the disgraced daughter of a duke who is acting as companion to the widow’s aunt. Things get really complicated, and this MP winds up the “lover” of the friend, the “fiancé” of the widow, and besotted with the duke’s daughter. She’s the only one he actually kisses. The widow has her own romance, begun two books ago and finally finished in this one. A very good, entertaining read.

Great book!!!!!

I feel like the blurb on the back of the book is misleading. If anyone was pursuing anyone, it would be Sebastian pursuing Esme. I loved seeing their story come to a HEA. The author did a wonderful job of bringing it to a realistic conclusion even with the scandals from the other 2 books.Stephen and Bea spent so much of the book fighting AGAINST pursuing the other party I feel that the title/blurb is misleading. That said, I did like their parts of the story.James is doing a wonderful job in these books of balancing a large cast of characters and making you care for each sub-plot as much as you do the main plot. I can't wait to see Helene and Rees's conclusion in the final book of this series.On a side note, not many romance novels feature childbirth. Many have an epilogue of pregnancy, but few have childbirth from the point of view of the woman giving birth and don’t do a fade to black. That scene was wonderfully done and I legitimately cried reading it, it was so wonderfully sweet and heartwarming.

Qué libro tan divertido, qué sonrisa en la cara tenía todo el rato mientras lo leía, qué fantástica comedia de enredos.Lo único que tengo que deci:ESTE ES EL LIBRO DE SEBASTIAN Y ESME, Y NO ADMITO DISCURSIÓN AL RESPECTO, PORQUE SON PRECIOSOS Y SE LO MERECEN.La trama de Stephen y Bea es para mi la secundaria, y no me disgusta, pero tampoco me apasiona.También podría señalar que la actitud de Esme muchas veces me parecía incomprensible por lo obsesionada que seguía con el anterior esposo, por ser tan terca con Sebastian, o por los tremendos mummy issues que me lleva la amiga.Mis dieces para esas escenas de sexo con Sebastian adorando el cuerpo embarazado de Esme, aunque tenga estrías o esté más gorda ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🥲