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FINAL DECISION: Entertaining and sweet redemption for us women who are more pear shaped than fashionably thin, PLEASURE FOR PLEASURE provides a warm conclusion to the Essex Sisters quartet.

THE STORY: Miss Josie Essex has obtained the unfortunate nickname 'the Scottish Sausage" because of her full figure. Abandoning the possibility of a traditional courtship, Josie is persuaded by family friend, the Earl of Mayne to throw away her ugly restrictive corset, obtain some clothes to flatter her curvy figure and realize the attractive possibilities of her own body. When Josie is almost ruined by a boorish rakehell, Mayne steps up to save her.

OPINION: I enjoyed this book precisely because Josie, the young woman with a poor self-image of herself, the woman who is taunted by bullies having been given the moniker "the Scottish Sausage" manages to claim the man who has gotten away from every woman in this series (including Josie's own sisters). In this story, there is something especially lovely about the jaded Mayne falling for the lively youngest Miss Essex. Josie is not a stereotypical sweet gentle miss. She is tart and argumentative and simply wonderful.

I honestly am usually more interested in the hero than the heroine, but this book was one where I so identified with Josie that I focused on her journey. While she is young, I love how she is able to keep Mayne once she catches him. I loved her personality which is so different from the mousey wallflower one might suspect. She feels like an incredibly well rounded and complex character.

One of the interesting parts of this book is how James has Mayne and Josie fall in love in the quiet. There is no "ah, ha" moment. Yet, by the time the big moment comes at the end of the book, it is clear that these two are perfect for one another. Mayne has been bored with life, not truly engaging with life. Josie is so full of life, that she pulls Mayne with her.

My one quibble with the story is that I thought that Josie deserved a bit more in her happy ending with Mayne. After he had been matched with so many women, I would have liked something just a little more demonstrating his devotion to Josie alone.

There is also a secondary romance involving Mayne sister. I enjoyed that romance as well and it neatly wrapped up all the characters from the series.

WORTH MENTIONING: The epilogue has a little "in the future"

CONNECTED BOOKS: PLEASURE FOR PLEASURE is the fourth book in the Essex Sisters series. It can be read as a standalone but is a great culmination of everything that has happened in the series.

STAR RATING: I give this book 4 stars.


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Pleasure for Pleasure Essex Sisters book 4 Eloisa James 9780060781927 Books Reviews

I've never been a huge fan of Garrett Mayne, despite reading about him in multiple previous novels, both within this series and out, but in all of them, he's gotten on my nerves as a cynical dandy....precisely as James must mean to, to set you up to completely fall for him in this book. Without spoiling it too much, I'll just say his "thrill-seeking" behavior has a much nicer light cast upon it in the end.

James has been establishing Josie's character throughout the 3 previous novels in the Essex series, and as the youngest, it makes since that she be saved for last. No disappointment here - Josie remains true to herself, and retains her charm that she's had throughout the earlier novels. On the surface, I was a little disappointed that James kept Josie at the youthful age of 18, because I think it would've been a lot of fun to see her develop into a more mature woman in her [late] twenties...but considering that James challenges ideas about aging with several characters in this novel, I can't imagine that the story would've been more enjoyable if Josie had been older, now that I've finished the book.

Overall, I can say that you'll definitely enjoy the story, but make sure you read the first 3 books in the series to thoroughly appreciate; I strongly doubt you'll enjoy it as much if you don't.
With all the reviews of this book being negative I felt that it was totally wrong...How can anyone believe that a man that has been "tom -catting" most of their life could say truthfully he was in love not once but twice. You can tell that he was bored with his lifestyle, he saw his friends happy in their marriage he thinks he's in love too, when he is not getting what he wants. what he wants is to be loved for who he is inside. To me when he told Josie that on the trip to Scotland. that he was thinking how Josie was getting beautiful and then would block it out from his thoughts and tell himself that he was "in love" with Sylvie or was in love with Lady Goldwyn. Even saying it out loud to others to make it real...This is not love,but the idea of love. You could tell that he was falling for Josie but would not admit let alone even think he could be in love with her since she was so young.
When having read the reviews and getting the feeling that I most likely will have agreed about this series of the Essex Sisters being not as good...I absolutely positively disagree.To see that each book could. be read by it self I recommend that they be read from the first book so that you can understand the plots especially the sub quotes, narratives, and background information of the book.Elosia James is so good at throwing in "unlikely" situations or actions that are explained through the sub quotes,narratives and background information. Elosia has always had conclusions to each angle; like men being able to marry much younger women so why can't older women marry younger men;
This is why I love Elosia James books she has you thinking that her books will end a certain way, but doesn't. Her stories are fantastic,funny,sad, and most of all exciting...you want to keep reading and reading...
This Eloisa James book just didn't do it for me. Ms James seems to be suffering from burnout and instead of a convincing development of the love story between Josie and the Earl of Mayne there were too many gimmicky and unlikely situations such as Josie going home unchaperoned with the Earl where she takes of her dress which is donned by the Earl who minces around to show her how to walk... then the melodramatic groping of Josie turned-to-rape in the outraged mind of the Earl... and then the ridiculous plot devised by Josie to kidnap her new husband in some childish attempt to make him choose between his former fiancee and herself...
When authors feel they have to churn out a book every year or six months, they seem to lose the magic they had when they first began writing.
I simply could not finish this book and am wondering how to delete it from my
FINAL DECISION Entertaining and sweet redemption for us women who are more pear shaped than fashionably thin, PLEASURE FOR PLEASURE provides a warm conclusion to the Essex Sisters quartet.

THE STORY Miss Josie Essex has obtained the unfortunate nickname 'the Scottish Sausage" because of her full figure. Abandoning the possibility of a traditional courtship, Josie is persuaded by family friend, the Earl of Mayne to throw away her ugly restrictive corset, obtain some clothes to flatter her curvy figure and realize the attractive possibilities of her own body. When Josie is almost ruined by a boorish rakehell, Mayne steps up to save her.

OPINION I enjoyed this book precisely because Josie, the young woman with a poor self-image of herself, the woman who is taunted by bullies having been given the moniker "the Scottish Sausage" manages to claim the man who has gotten away from every woman in this series (including Josie's own sisters). In this story, there is something especially lovely about the jaded Mayne falling for the lively youngest Miss Essex. Josie is not a stereotypical sweet gentle miss. She is tart and argumentative and simply wonderful.

I honestly am usually more interested in the hero than the heroine, but this book was one where I so identified with Josie that I focused on her journey. While she is young, I love how she is able to keep Mayne once she catches him. I loved her personality which is so different from the mousey wallflower one might suspect. She feels like an incredibly well rounded and complex character.

One of the interesting parts of this book is how James has Mayne and Josie fall in love in the quiet. There is no "ah, ha" moment. Yet, by the time the big moment comes at the end of the book, it is clear that these two are perfect for one another. Mayne has been bored with life, not truly engaging with life. Josie is so full of life, that she pulls Mayne with her.

My one quibble with the story is that I thought that Josie deserved a bit more in her happy ending with Mayne. After he had been matched with so many women, I would have liked something just a little more demonstrating his devotion to Josie alone.

There is also a secondary romance involving Mayne sister. I enjoyed that romance as well and it neatly wrapped up all the characters from the series.

WORTH MENTIONING The epilogue has a little "in the future"

CONNECTED BOOKS PLEASURE FOR PLEASURE is the fourth book in the Essex Sisters series. It can be read as a standalone but is a great culmination of everything that has happened in the series.

STAR RATING I give this book 4 stars.