As You Wish - Eloisa James
 
Regarding the short "Seduced by a Pirate" i pretty much loved reading it.
It was funny, a little insane, but it was Eloisa James at her best:
_Making me believe and smile at improbable plots, and characters bigger than life.
Because a husband who leaves his wife on his wedding night, embarrassed to death with his incapacity *cough* to perform. A husband who ends up being kidnapped, placed on a boat and who goes missing for FOURTEEN YEARS, cannot expect a happy ending! Unless of course he's on a Eloisa James book!
And then there's the faux pas with his wife's name!! LOL
4 star rating

Then there's the Story "With this kiss". Part one, two and three.

With this kiss, part one
Well, this was pretty much perfection. It was more realistic and plausible written. The characters mostly behaving according to the time period they were living.
It had depth and soul.
4.5 stars

With This Kiss- Part Two
It started out good, but then the disaster occurred.
The main character Grace, who up until now had behaved in a most sensible and reasonable way, decides to undergo a total transformation and behave like someone in our century could.

The conversation with her mother who goes something along the lines of this:

(BEWARE SARCASM WILL ABOUND..)

"Oh mama, Colin is hurt, and as so, i must abandon my fiancee, despise all social conventions, and accompany my wounded LOVE to our house in the country, where i will seduce him!"

The countess:
"Oh daughter of mine, do not use that word...but okay!! I will delay your father with our earth shattering love making so that he doesn't notice that his oldest daughter is about to become ruined!"

A little later on the coach...

Grace and Colin the wounded dashing officer who has been given laudanum, but who instead of sleeping is very much active...

"Oh, where am i? Grace, Grace is that you? I know i never payed the least attention to you, but then suddenly i discovered that i LOBED you! But then i became blind!! Oh tragedy!! And now i can only see you in erotic dreams...hello, what is this?

Ah, here you are love of my life!! Now i will have my way with you!!
*rips her clothes of "wow this is very realistic dream" and proceeds to debauch her.
Goes to sleep.

Meanwhile Grace who is not a virgin anymore... o_O
What the hell? I'm not gonna touch that! says her looking at the sleeping man with the trousers wide open...

What more can i say...
Is this supposed to be sexy? Romantic?
1 star rating

With his Kiss - Part Three
Honestly, i can't even remember it anymore...but it wasn't as bad as the previous one.
2 star rating

What a disappointment.