Pleasure for pleasure by eloisa james5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() He meets Lady Griselda, Josie’s chaperon. Mean-spirited Darlington goes through a particularly confusing story arc, summarized below:Ģ. On the upside, the secondary characters are more interesting. Unfortunately, their affection for one another cuts down on opportunities for angst-fueled plot development, which means that more attention is devoted to the secondary characters. In another unusual step, it’s clear that the hero and heroine of Pleasure for Pleasure actually like one another. She’s (shocker!) enticingly voluptuous, and, with the help of some tight gowns and a little confidence, she instantly has dozens of panting Englishmen flinging themselves at her feet. James’s courage fails her, and by the end of the first third of the novel it’s clear that Josie isn’t fat at all. Having a genuinely heavy heroine would have been an original step for a historical romance, but Ms. ![]() James’s heroine, Josie, is overweight-so much so that English society’s nastiest wit, Charles Darlington, has dubbed her “The Scottish Sausage”. Pleasure for Pleasure starts promisingly enough. Her most recent novel, Pleasure for Pleasure, isn’t totally unreadable, but it’s damn close. ![]() Unfortunately, she seems less interested in coherent plot structure. ![]() With her nods to Shakespeare, fondness for lofty literary quotations, and unsentimental dialogue, Eloisa James clearly wants to stand out from the bodice-ripper pack. ![]()
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