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Three Weeks With Lady X (Desperate Duchesses, #7; Desperate Duchesses by the Numbers, #1)

Eloisa James

Start date: April 1, 2014

Finish date: April 30, 2014

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Dec 07, 2013 Caz rated it it was amazing

Shelves: aar, arc, contemporary-romance, 4-stars, romance-pre-1800s

I've given this an A- at AAR, so 4.5 stars, but I'm rounding up to 5 in the rating.

I’ve admitted to having been underwhelmed by Eloisa James’ last two or three books, but she’s still an author whose books I’ve never been able to not read when they come out. I’m happy to report that she’s back on top form with Three Weeks with Lady X, a continuation of her Desperate Duchesses series.

The plot is fairly simple, but what makes it such a terrific story is the depth to the characterization of the two ...more

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Apr 03, 2014 Diane rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2014-a-z-challenge

I must say that I enjoyed this book immensely. I was a fan of the novel by Eloisa James that featured his father and was in hopes the I would like this one as well. Let me say that I think that I like this one better. The two main characters are two halves of the same whole. They cannot either see it to start with, but the readers see immediately that they are perfect for one another,

Thorn, the illegitimate son of the Duke of Villiers, is a gentleman to the core whether he acts or dresses like ...more

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Mar 30, 2014 Tahyun rated it it was amazing

Shelves: genre-romance, genre-romance-historical

It has been a very long time since I really enjoyed an Eloisa James novel. There was a time when I would automatically purchase her books in paperback, probably without even reading the back to see what the book was about. However, after two or three books that just failed to hold my interest, or just didn't appeal to me, I started purchasing her books for my nook, when and if I felt like it.

However, this book really did it. I mean, it was everything you could ever hope for in a romance novel, ...more

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Jul 07, 2014 Sylvain rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Having made a fortune, Thorn Dautry, the powerful bastard son of a duke, decides that he needs a wife. But to marry a lady, Thorn must acquire a gleaming, civilized façade, the specialty of Lady Xenobia India.

Exquisite, head-strong, and independent, India vows to make Thorn marriageable in just three weeks.

But neither Thorn nor India anticipate the forbidden passion that explodes between them.

Thorn will stop at nothing to make India his. Failure is not an option.

But there is only one thing t

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