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    Four Nights With the Duke
    Four Nights With the Duke
    Four Nights With the Duke
    Audiobook11 hours

    Four Nights With the Duke

    Written by Eloisa James

    Narrated by Susan Duerden

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    About this audiobook

    Eloisa James returns with another fabulous romance in her New York Times bestselling Desperate Duchesses series!

    As a young girl, Emilia Gwendolyn Carrington told the annoying future Duke of Pindar that she would marry any man in the world before him—so years later she is horrified to realize that she has nowhere else to turn.

    Evander Septimus Brody has his own reasons for agreeing to Mia's audacious proposal, but there's one thing he won't give his inconvenient wife: himself.

    Instead, he offers Mia a devil's bargain . . . he will spend four nights a year with her. Four nights, and nothing more. And those only when she begs for them.

    Which Mia will never do.

    Now Vander faces the most crucial challenge of his life: he must seduce his own wife in order to win her heart—and no matter what it takes, this is the one battle he can't afford to lose.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMar 31, 2015
    ISBN9780062384126
    Four Nights With the Duke
    Author

    Eloisa James

    Eloisa James is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author and professor of English literature, who lives with her family in New York, but can sometimes be found in Paris or Italy. She is the mother of two and, in a particularly delicious irony for a romance writer, is married to a genuine Italian knight.

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    • 4/5
      I'm sighing from the bottom of my heart, happy as a clam ^_^

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    • 3/5
      It's always wonderful to read a historical romance where the heroine is curvy, smart, and very strong of personality, and Mia does not disappoint. I particularly like that her strength is matched in Vander. Delightful!

      Advanced reading copy provided by Edelweiss.
    • 3/5
      2.5 stars

      "So you are looking for a husband," he said agreeably. "And you thought, hey ho, I'll have a go at a duke?"

      This had some humor to it through the couple's commentary back and forth that I liked. The whole story takes place pretty much within a week and I think this caused the lack of relationship I felt between the two. The hero Vander spends a vast majority of the time saying clueless slightly mean things to the heroine Mia while she spends the vast majority weeping and hurt. They're angry, they are lustily attracted to each other, rinse and repeat. The additives to the story, the evil uncle wanting to inherit Mia's nephew's inheritance, Mia's fiance who maybe maybe not jilted her, and the ending danger scene, felt disjointed. It seemed the last 30% or so of the story didn't know where to go and felt dragged out. There were some heartfelt moments though, with Charlie, Mia's nephew, and Vander that will melt your heart.
    • 5/5
      I laughed, I cried - loved it.
    • 4/5
      Yessssssssss so much great insecurity and angst!!! Even though there is a bit of love triangle-y stuff that I am not so fond of and the end was a wee bit over the top (though with the theme of the gothic novelist, it can be seen as appropriate). ADORED all the misunderstanding and hurt feelings and insecurity - right up my alley.
    • 4/5
      The book starts when Mia and Vander are fifteen years old. They have an odd connection because her father has been carrying on an affair with his mother, one that is no secret to anyone. Mia has also developed a crush on Vander and has written a truly awful love poem to him. Unfortunately for her, he finds it, and with his friends, makes fun of it in ways that only teenage boys can do. Overhearing what they are saying, Mia is humiliated and tells him that he's the last person she would ever consider marrying.Flash forward thirteen years, and Mia finds herself having to eat her words. In order to retain guardianship of her orphaned nephew, she has to marry and marry soon. Her fiance stood her up on their wedding day, and she is desperate to find a husband. Enter Vander, the last man she wants, but the one she has the means to force into marriage. She succeeds in gaining his agreement, but he has conditions of his own.I had love-hate feelings for both Vander and Mia. I really liked Mia's independence and determination to do whatever necessary to protect Charlie. She has an excellent career as a romance novelist, is smart, funny, and loving. She also has some serious self esteem issues when it comes to her appearance, seeing herself as fat, plain and unappealing to men. These feelings had been reinforced by the comments of Vander and his friends way back, and she has never really forgiven him for them. For the most part,Vander seems like a decent man. He takes care of his uncle, runs his estate well, and is dedicated to his horses rather than being out wasting time in society. He doesn't play by society's rules, being pretty plain spoken. He's also used to getting his own way, whether it is something to do with his horses or women. But when it comes to Mia, he is a bit of an ass.When she comes to him with the marriage proposal, he is convinced that she wants the marriage because she is still in love with him. He figures he'll get even with her by denying her what he thinks she wants - his body. He's surprised when she insists she doesn't want him. and really doesn't believe her. But having made his demands plain to her, he finds himself regretting it when he discovers that he is very attracted to her. I was pretty disgusted with his attitude, and how he was constantly making lewd remarks to her, even after she told him to leave her alone. He had been determined never to marry because of his parents' actions, and seeing what "love" caused them to do. With his marriage to Mia, he refuses to allow himself the same kind of obsession he saw in his mother, but he can't stop thinking about her. What made me mad at him was that it mostly seemed to be about sex with him. Once in awhile there would be something else about her, something she said or did, that makes him realize how smart, funny, loving, etc, she is, but then it would go right back to sex. It isn't until near the end, when he nearly loses her, that he realizes that his own actions have driven her away. Then he has to figure out how to show her how he really feels.Mia also frustrated me on a regular basis. I loved her independent spirit. She doesn't really care about society, as she has never wanted to be part of it. She's made a good life for herself writing popular books. She wasn't particularly happy about her father's affair, but her romantic nature saw how much he and Vander's mother cared for each other. When she becomes the guardian of her nephew, she will do anything she has to in order to keep him out of the hands of his uncle, even marry Vander. I really enjoyed watching her poke holes in his conceit by telling him she had no intention of asking for any of those four nights. I felt bad for the way she thought she was so unattractive, even when Vander made it obvious he was attracted to her. But what really bugged me was the way that every time Vander made advances, she would immediately forget her resolve to resist him and give in to the desire. Her brain would be telling her no, but she ignored it. I really wanted her to make him work for it. She would complain about his lack of respect for her, but she didn't seem to have any respect for herself either.In spite of it all, they did get closer. Vander did see what a wonderful woman Mia was. He did his best to show her that he found her very desirable. He did come to love her, but he had no idea how to show her. Mia realized that she had never stopped loving Vander, but she didn't think he loved her back. His actions when her former fiance reappeared reinforced those feelings. I liked the ending and seeing how Charlie helped Vander. It was sweet to see Vander finally find a way to speak about his feelings. Charlie's uncle makes a brief reappearance, and I loved Charlie's part in vanquishing him. I loved the epilogue.I really enjoyed two of the secondary characters. Charlie was adorable. I loved seeing the way that he and Vander connected. Charlie really needed the kind of support that Vander provided. I loved their first meeting and the way that Charlie stood up for himself. He also had a pretty good perspective on life, and I loved seeing his determination to deal with his handicap. The other one I like was Jafeer, the horse. It was so much fun to see tiny Mia do things with the horse that all those big men couldn't manage.
    • 5/5
      Another wonderful story from Eloisa James. I just simply couldn't put it down, finished it in 24 hrs!!Another one of Eloisa's best! I like it even more and more with each new book she wrote. I love heroine making daring decision, out of the norm of society, not a head-turning beauty, nor most-sort-after-of-the-season kind of girl whom a noble man would find himself in love-at first-sight category. But it's the beauty within, though lack confidence, especially about her look which was a sore spot, and the scandal her father caused, but she used her quiet intelligence drawn from the very thing that men made fun of when she was a young girl. Can the Duke of Pindar recognize these qualities in her and see her in a different light, can he even bring himself to love her and convince her otherwise?
    • 4/5
      Mia and Vander's story started off strong, but lost momentum midway through and was a surprising struggle to finish.
    • 4/5
      This is book two in EJ's Desperate Duchesses by the Numbers series [btw: I'd love to know who came up with this title of the series] and by now I'm sure as to what to expect from this second generation of DD's series and I'm finding myself less and less surprised by the plot, which in itself isn't so bad. I find that I am well entertained by almost every character in these stories. That's a win-win for me. As long as I like the characters, I'm happy to read the book straight through.

      We met this duke in the first book of this series, but we get to see what makes him tick in this one.

      I loved the opening of this story because it does a wonderful job of introducing us to the two leads as teenagers and to their personalities as such and gives us a hint as to who they'll grow into.

      The hero was one complex character and even though it took me awhile to get to know him, I knew that he'd turn out to be a decent and good man. Vander's arrogance was off putting at the beginning, but his relationship with Charlie and his complex relationship with Mia made him feel more real, more likeable.

      The heroine I liked from the get-go, but at times I just wanted to shake her and give her a talking to. I did love the fact that she was decisive and that she was an authoress, but it's her humanity that attracted me the most to her. Her love and sacrifice for her nephew was palpable and watching her insecurities and struggles through her feelings of love for Vender was very emotional and touching.

      And as usual, this author populates her story once more with an array of wonderfully fun and entertaining characters, from Vander’s uncle Chuffy to Jafeer, Vander’s Arabian stallion. And bringing back the Duke of Villiers, Thorn and India was like icing on the cake.

      If I had only one word to describe this story, it would be satisfying. I highly recommend it and guarantee you'll have much fun reading it.

      Melanie for b2b
    • 4/5
      Eloisa James is in excellent form with this one. A more conventional historical romance in some ways than some of her recent works, which played with fairy tale themes. But she does it so very well, it's great to see a good writer having fun and delivering for readers.
    • 4/5
      Read for Review (Avon)Overall Rating : 3.50Story Rating : 3.50Character Rating : 3.50First Thought when Finished: Four Nights With the Duke by Eloisa James was an engaging story with likable characters. While I never really fell in love with Mia and Vander, their romance was entertaining and at time emotional. Not a favorite but still a good read.Part of my Read It, Rate It, File It, Done! Reviews