Pleasure for Pleasure

Title: Pleasure for Pleasure
Author: Eloisa James
Series: Essex Sisters (Book 4)
Genre: Historical Romance


Josie has been nicknamed the "Scottish Sausage" by a mean boy of the ton. Her season seems like it is going to be over before it had totally started. Josie knows that no man will want her because she is too heavy.

The Earl of Mayne (jilted one sister, refused to have an affair with another), who is now engaged, decides one evening to show Josie how to walk like a woman and really embrace her curves. He encourages her to get new dresses without crazy slimming contraptions and tries to show her she is beautiful just the way she is.

When Josie gets manhandled by an irate member of the ton, Mayne knows that it is his duty to marry her. Josie is concerned at first, because she wasn't ruined merely scared. She thinks that Mayne will want to get the marriage annulled when he finds out. Luckily that is not the case.

What happens to Mayne's fiance? She gets angry at him for making advances (which we find out why at the end of the book in a very discrete manner) gives him his ring back and it seems that he all of a sudden no longer loves her and realizes his love for Josie.

I seemed to have the biggest issue with Josie herself. Because she was so young when the series started, I had a hard time seeing her as old enough to be going through this. It didn't bother me that Mayne was 16 years older than her. I often has this problem when we watch a character grow up. They don't grow up in my eyes and the book takes on a slightly odd feel to it.