Your Wicked Ways audiobook

This was such a sweet book. It plays out exactly as one would imagine from reading the blurb but I can't bring myself to fault it for that. I loved every moment.

Completely shocked five star read ✨✨✨This book is not for the faint of romance reading hearts. I have read enough old school and Eloisa James that I can get down with imperfect heroes and heroines. I’m actually to the point now where I prefer it. I don’t need characters castigating themselves over the fire for some dumb crap at the end of books simply because it’s the 80% mark. This book is full of imperfect characters and a whole lot of serious mistakes made, but it’s a story of love. Forgiving, long suffering, and imperfect love. There’s no grand gestures or crazy groveling. It’s just simple forgiveness and love and I absolutely loved it. I understand why a lot of people don’t like it, because problematic things are well, problematic, but I’m just problematic enough myself that I like these crazy plots now 🤣When I started this series and was introduced to Rees Holland, Earl of Godwin and learn that this dude kicked his wife out of the house and replaced her with an opera singer….I had my doubts. My serious doubts. But. Then. 😭Helene is a shrew. I’m not exaggerating. She’s an angry little thing and she has every right to be. She wants a divorce from her shameful husband, she wants a baby, she wishes she could just have sex and her junk not shut down like Fort Knox. Helene is in desperate need for a sexual revolution in her life for practical and personal reasons. So when her husband offers himself as stud in exchange for her help in writing an opera, she’s just desperate enough to accept. The thing I loved about this book was the absolute lack of sexual prowess. You know how it goes. You read a book with two virgins but obvs they have secret powers and everyone reaches completion in a rainbow meadow of unicorns. Instead, we have two virgins that absolutely muck everything up and it makes their marriage fall apart. There are a lot of love scenes in this book as Helene and Rees are trying to have a baby, but they aren’t all ecstasy crazy. The intimacy builds as these two reconnect and I enjoyed watching Rees flounder and say things like, “It can’t work tonight” and “I don’t know much about women” and “Maybe I should ask my best friend about this stuff…” lolololol. Helene and Rees aren’t perfect. They’ve both said horrible things and man, did Rees put his wife though the ringer, but I love love loved watching them come back to each other. I don’t understand a freaking word either one of them say when they are working on music, but it’s still wonderful to watch their connection. I want to dock a half a star for the boring and meh plot of Lina and Tom, but Helene and Rees bump it up to a five again anyway.

4 Estrellitas. Al contrario que los anteriores libros de ésta serie, éste sí me ha convencido. Tenía muchas ganas de él, pero también recelos al conocer la historia pasada y presente de los protagonistas; pero creo que Eloisa James ha sabido llevarla.Helene y Rees Holland, condes de Godwin se casaron muy jóvenes y muy impulsivos fugándose a Gretna Green. En seguida se dieron cuenta de que lo suyo no era idílico y se perdieron totalmente el respeto, hasta que Rees echó de casa a Helene.Han pasado nueve años y Helene ha decidido dar el paso definitivo, todas sus amigas están felizmente casadas y han sido madres y ella quiere tener hijos, pero no quiere tenerlos con Rees, así que insistirá hasta que éste le conceda el divorcio.Rees Holland ha pasado esos nueve años perdiendo su respetabilidad entre bailarinas y cantantes de ópera, de hecho su actual amante lleva años viviendo con él en su casa y durmiendo en la habitación de la condesa.Cuando Helene llega una vez más a pedirle el divorcio a Rees, éste no morderá el anzuelo, no quiere divorciarse y si su esposa quiere un hijo se lo dará él y será su heredero, Rees no consentirá que su heredero sea el hijo de otro hombre.Ya sabemos que en ésa época el papel de una mujer era muy limitado y dependiente del padre o del esposo y aquí Rees jugará ése papel ofreciéndole a Helene un trato: que Helene venga un mes a vivir a la casa Godwin, donde él intentará darle ése hijo, y a cambio ella le ayudará a componer su última opereta. Rees es compositor de ópera, y lleva mucho tiempo con un bloqueo artístico importante, sólo la sagacidad al piano de su esposa podrá ayudarla.El problema de éste trato, es que la actual amante de Rees, Lina, aún vive en la casa, y Rees no quiere echarla. Lina lleva meses sin frecuentar su cama, pero tiene la voz que Rees necesita para su ópera. Por muy indecente que sea el trato, Helene aceptará.La trama se complicará cuando los protagonistas comiencen a intimar de nuevo y descubran lo que el tiempo y la experiencia ha cambiado en ellos.A pesar de lo sórdido que es el personaje de Rees y su situación, me ha convencido cómo ha llevado Eloisa James la historia. De hecho ha introducido una pequeña historia secundaria entre Tom, el vicario y hermano menor de Rees, y Lina, la ex amante de Rees.Quizás el romance me ha costado algo más pillarlo, pues queda muy al final de la novela y esperas algo más de redención por parte de Rees.Lo que ha estado bien de la novela ha sido la introducción del conde de Mayne y su hermana, lady Griselda, que tendrán mucho protagonismo en la siguiente serie, la de las hermanas Essex.En general, el cuartero de duquesas ha sido una serie entretenida, con pocas duquesas, y poco sobresaliente, en la que destacaría un par de novelas, la primera y la última. Sin duda, la serie de las hermanas Essex estuvo mucho mejor.

Your Wicked Ways, Eloisa James another story makes me excited. Although this novel not so interesting like her other novel, but it still can make me stole my time read it. Helene , the heroin. I like Helene, I like her character and everything about her. But sometimes, I can't understand why she still accept what her husband doing to her. It is love? Yes, to her, her husband is her love that can't be denied. After 10 years part from Rees, she comes back. To claim her right. Rees , the hero. I dislike him. Supposed, I give full stars for this story, but I can't. I can't accept and approved 100% what he had done. It's totally waste for 10 years to realize for all HIS MISTAKES. I don't know his feeling for Helene, I can't make any assumption. Once, I think Rees is too selfish for what he's done to Helene and Lina. For Lina and Tom ending, I expected it to happen. After all, it’s a happy ending. I can smile at the end.

This book was quite hard to rate but then I finally decided to lean on the bright side lool!My main issue was the hero: he was quite despicable, especially in the beginning. Rees had a mistress, a live in mistress! Ten years ago he threw his wife Helene out of their house, became depraved and quite disgusting lool. He stopped being intimate with Lina his mistress but he kept her just because he needed her opera voice for his next musical.Now the wife, Helene! I loved her lool... She wanted a divorce to remarry and have a child but Rees didn't want to grant it. After a relooking from her crazy friend Esme, men were lining up so Rees decided he will father the baby. He had a short lived competition from another earl and I seriously loved how Helene was infatuated with Mayne lol!The husdand then wants her to live with him to help with his musical and make the baby. Problem? REES IS KEEPING LINA IN THE SAME HOUSE HE WANTS HELENE TO MOVE BACK INTO!!That was disrespectful. And I hated that the author painted Lina as a good woman, innocent and so pure and difficult to hate lool! I also hated how Rees never properly groveled to Helene. He never apologized for his poor treatment of her over the years, she just fell back into his arms too easilyThat being said, the book was quite hilarious tho lool! Even when I hated Rees, he still made laugh with his dumb self loool. The humour saves the book

Ahhh. I liked this, although I feel like I wanted a little MORE in some ways. I feel like I wasn't QUITE there with the couple, although I certainly believed they were on their way to a happy life together. I just don't think they had quite earned it yet.It's also a book where I would've loved flashbooks. You see, they were passionately in love with each other, eloped, had bad sex and couldn't figure out how to get past that. No, really, that seemed to basically be the root of the problems. Then they said mean things to each other, but if they'd just figured out the sex thing, they'd have been fine!But they were young and didn't know any better. Didn't really know that much better ten years later, but they knew enough to be able to fix it. (Really, I wish more had been spent on this. They seemed to move too quickly from both believing Helene wasn't capable of pleasure to figuring out that wasn't true.)And I really liked the role music had in both of their lives and the way it bonded them together, but I wanted more of that, too!Part of the problem is probably that there was a secondary romance that probably needed to be its own book. I liked both storylines, but I needed more of each.Also, make sure you read this book before James's Essex Sisters series. The hero of one of those books is a rival in this one and I thought I was prepared for that, but it was just TOO WEIRD.

Other than a few minor phrases of repetition, I loved the book (you see drove me insane) I think Eloisa James will be a staple in my historical romance addiction. I found this book secondhand, not knowing it was the 4th in a series. I read it as a standalone without any issue, and will go back to book 1. Many Historical Romance novels are too flowery, over descriptive, insta-love, and eye-roll worthy. They possess an excess of words that must be skimmed(like 3 pages to describe one action). I didn't find James' writing to be this way. Eloise James writing style is similar to Kleypas. When an author has a huge back-list, you are guaranteed to find a few that just miss the mark with you; it is a given. For me, these authors can do no wrong, and I hope James joins those ranks on my favorite shelves.

Una novela ligera y divertida con toques de música.me he reido bastante con las escenas del libro, me recuerda a estas peliculas romanticas de enredos, muy aconsejable para quien le guste la romantica erotica victoriana.

Helene, the Countess of Godwin, has been married to her husband for over ten years. When she met him she was young and believed herself in love with him. They eloped knowing it would be against her parents wishes. It seemed to Helene that their marriage was doomed from the start. Since she found no pleasure in sexual encounters with her husband at the beginning only found pain, they started to drift apart. Now ten years later, Helene wants something she yearns for, a child. However when she goes to ask her husband for a divorce he denies her. Rees, The Earl of Godwin is a rake through and through. He is a scoundrel and has had many illicit affairs outside of his marriage. He is content with having a wife in name, and having passions in the flesh with other women with which he has no attachment to. When Helene asks him for a divorce, he is blunt with his answers, having no compassion for his wife's desires or wants in having children. Helene eventually leaves, after a long discussion that proved hopeless. So while with a friend out shopping one day, she decides that she needs a change. She wants to have a child no matter the circumstance in which the child is conceived. So she comes up with a plot, that will help her achieve such a goal. She cuts her hair ( knowing her husband loved her long hair ) and she buys new clothes, and in all appearances is a changed woman, since she is planning to entice a man to her bed. At the ball in which she will begin her plot, she comes face to face once more with her husband who knows of her plot, and makes her a offer she can't refuse. That he will be the one to help her conceive the child she so desires, but she has to come live with him for one month, in his town house where his current mistress is also living. Even though Helene wishes she could back off, she wants a child above the sake of her own pride. So she goes along with this scheme, and finds a passion and sensual delights that she has never encountered.Its been quite some time since I have had the chance to read anything from Eloisa James in quite some time. I love the circumstances in which Helene and Rees are brought back together once more. At first they fight and argue quite often, and at time act childish to say the least. But as time progress, their attitude toward one another gentles and thus we start to see a flaming passion that rises between the two, one that they didn't even know existed. Rees, although I thought his character seemed very rude and insufferable at times, he also had some higher moments of course. There were times that he was a handsome, and caring husband toward Helene. Throughout the book you see him soften his attitude and become the true hero of the book. Helene, just sparked my interest from the first page. Helene of course, wants to have a child, after seeing her friends having babies of their own. She craves one more than ever now, and even though she seems to despise her husband that starts to change for him. For all their tense moments and heated arguments, there is also a tender love that blossoms between the two. It definitely will have you flipping page after page, wondering what is going to happen next, and when are they going to admit how much they love each other. This was a tender love story, and one that I am grateful to have gotten my hands on. Now I would like to read the rest of the series, having seen a couple of the other characters from other books, I am eager to hop to it!!!

It was different. That is all I can say about it. And different doesn't mean that it is bad, it's just unlike her other works. The way she told the story through correspondences and how there are two love stories (Helene & Rees and Tom & Lina). I would enjoy it more if Rees acts a little bit jealous when Mayne gave Helene his attention or at least something that shows Rees cares for her wife. "Whatever it is that your husband has done to you," Mayne said with precision, "that made you return to him under such humiliating circumstances, I'm going to kill him for it."02/03 I am excited to read this having read the Essex Sisters series and seeing Earl of Mayne aka Garret and his heartbreak over Countess Goodwin! I shall rate it once I'm done reading!(view spoiler)[ 02/05 hmm, why do I hanker to see Helene and Mayne albeit knowing fully well how that is impossible. 02/06 I don't like how Mayne is portrayed here, to be honest. In the Essex Sisters stories, Mayne has always been heartbroken and failed to move on from Countess Godwin so I did not expect that he would be one to blabber and cause rumors. I understand that he's hurt but it's just not pretty. (hide spoiler)]

I thought I had read this book before. I have all the other books in the series and I was sure I had this one too. But I don't remember reading it. It's usually little things I remember, like the piles of music paper on the floor, or what happens with the little girl the hero's brother rescues. Or even the brother coming to visit. It's an excellent story, the heroine and her estranged husband coming together again after many years apart and finally finding a way to fix what went wrong between them. Growing up helps them both in the matter. It's just nice. I liked it a lot.

Considering just how much I thought I would dislike this book, I ended up liking it a surprising amount. There were some inconsistencies of character, and overall it could have been written a little better, but in the end, I really, thoroughly enjoyed reading this one.