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    Your Wicked Ways
    Your Wicked Ways
    Your Wicked Ways
    Audiobook10 hours

    Your Wicked Ways

    Written by Eloisa James

    Narrated by Justine Eyre

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    About this audiobook

    Helene, the Countess Godwin, knows there is nothing more unbearably tedious than a virtuous woman. After all, she's been one for ten long years while her scoundrel of a husband lives with strumpets and causes scandal after scandal. So she decides it's time for a change -- she styles her hair in the newest, daring mode, puts on a shockingly transparent gown, and goes to a ball like Cinderella, hoping to find a prince charming to sweep her off her feet...and into his bed.

    But instead of a prince, she finds only her own volatile, infuriatingly handsome...husband, Rees, the Earl Godwin. They'd eloped to Gretna Green in a fiery passion, but passion can sometimes burn too hot to last.

    But now, Rees makes her a brazen offer, and Helene decides to become his wife again...but not in name only. No, this time she decides to be very, very wicked indeed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateApr 3, 2012
    ISBN9780062196002
    Your Wicked Ways
    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
      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!!!

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    • 4/5
      I was afraid I wouldn't like this book because I didn't like Reese at all in the other books in this series, but I was pleasantly surprised.
    • 4/5
      I liked the novella, but otherwise this series has been right on the line for me of wether I'm receiving more joy or annoyance (from its ridiculous drama). And also the hero of this one seemed undesirable going in. I even considered coming back for this last book at some later point in the future, but decided to push through and finish it out. And it ended up being much better than I had expected! There were several opportunities to start really piling on the drama, and I would start to brace for it, but then Eloisa James pretty commendably resisted. There is obviously still drama, but not to the farcical extent of the others.
    • 1/5
      Cried uncle at 189. Rhys is such a terrible character I wanted no HEA for him, I couldn't work up the enthusiasm to wish him anything other than out of my sight. And Helene, God what a bore! When the best character is "the other woman" you know you are in trouble. (Frankly, she wasn't much either, but at least a tiny bit interesting.) I love so much Eloisa James, but this is just terrible. Also, stop using the word rakehell! It must be in here 30 times at least. So irritating.
    • 4/5
      Fun conclusion to the Duchess Quartet. After mainlining all four books, I'm thinking I need to take a break before I run out of James' titles. It's been nice to take a break from my regular reading and discover a new author to love, but my pile of library books keeps getting bigger. The Essex Sisters series just may be calling my name, however....
    • 4/5
      A fun resolution to the series. Helene and Rees are probably the most interesting couple in the series and James gave their story a fair resolution. It was also nice to see a favourite character from another series putting in an appearance and playing a key role.
    • 4/5
      Fairly good conclusion to the series. I liked Helene and Rees's relationship. A little too complicated with too many characters and plots.
    • 4/5
      Sexy and fun. James has a fondness, it seems, for established couples, married for years, to fall in love, for real, the second time.Helene and Rees are one of these couples. Married very young and recklessly (they eloped after only a month of knowing each other, I think), after ten years, Helene desperately wants to have a child, but since she and Rees live in separate houses, and he refuses to give her a divorce, she decides to find a lover who can give her a child. She undergoes a makeover, finds new confidence, and then is stopped in her tracks by a furious Rees, who demands that he be the father of her child.Helene, despite her misgivings and willing to do whatever it takes, moves back into the Earl's home (with his mistress!) and slowly gets to know her husband again.It was interesting to watch a couple come back together, after having been separated by pride and misunderstandings. I also liked the musical aspect of the book - the couple came together through a love of music, and Rees convinces Helene to help him improve an opera he's been struggling with. They both come to realize the mistakes they've made and work to make amends, with sexy results... : )Romantic - recommended.
    • 3/5
      Eloisa James brings us another sultry read about an estranged married couple who've been apart the past 10 years who end up reuniting and creating a spark when brought back together to produce an heir and a musical score. Helene, the countess of Godwin changes from the prudish woman to a more daring and beautiful woman who entices many men after her change including her rake of a husband, Reese, the Earl of Godwin. When she approaches him yet again for a child of her own. He agrees only if she'll come back to their house to help him with his music and all while his mistress of the past 3 years lives in her old room next to his. What a scandal...The only thing lacking for me was that I wanted a bit more "macho" action between the two men rivaling for her attentions. It's always a bit more fun when 2 men fight over a woman.
    • 4/5
      This is one of my very favorite of Eloisa James's books. And that description leaves out one of the most salient points of the plot - Helene isn't a loose woman who just wants some man to bed her, she's a woman who desperately wants a baby, and knows her childbearing years are running out. That's why she does everything she does. That discription makes her sound a bit...wanton. But anyway, the Helene/Rees plot in this book is brilliant. Rees is a perfect anti-hero - he's clueless when it comes to women, a bit of a jerk, poorly dressed - and absolutely loveable at the same time. And it's obvious from the moment they sit down at the piano together that they're a perfect match - if only they could get over their less than perfect past together. The problem with this book, as with many of James's other books - is that she has to ruin a perfectly good and entertaining story by interspersing it with a secondary plot between Lina and Tom that is boring and pointless. I found myself desperately wanting to skip the chapters with them in order to see what was happening with Rees and Helene! The habit she has of doing this is getting more and more annoying!