![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t know what to make of Jemma at all. ![]() Elijah is either too cool to let his wife in or breaking into dramatic episodes of jealousy. A part of me feels that this story would have been so much stronger if she has gone back in time and set this story at the same time during the last few books, this time showing how Jemma and Elijah reconcile and discover that they are suitably in love.Īlas, instead, I get a tedious story of two characters bickering as if they are making a case for how boring a marriage can be. Author Eloisa James has kept Jemma’s story on hold for so long, which is understandable given that any good entertainer knows how to keep her audience in suspense, but by the time I reach this book, the tension from the chess game has fizzled. And then, by the time we reach This Duchess of Mine, Jemma and Elijah have become dumbed-down “We’re in love, really!” characters, with poor Villiers having to run around looking for love somewhere else. It all began with a promise of a love triangle between the scandalous Duchess of Beaumont, Jemma, her estranged husband Elijah, and the scoundrel Leopold, the Duke of Villiers, in Desperate Duchesses, which saw Jemma playing a chess match with both men, with the winner getting… her. ![]()
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