A review by rjordan19
Twelve Nights as His Mistress by Elisa Braden

emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Overall: 4.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥 (So I lost all my notes for this one but this is what I think it is)
Humor: Yes
Perspective: Third person from both hero and heroine
Cliffhanger: No this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes

Should I read in order?
Ideally, yes. This relationship has been in the background of a couple books.

Basic plot:
Charles has been attempting to woo Julia for years and the winter hunting party will provide the perfect opportunity to corner her into accepting.

Give this a try if you want:
- Regency
- country setting
- winter romance
- novella length
- widowed heroine/widower hero
- bargain – heroine agrees to spending 12 nights in his bed to determine that they aren’t suitable
- hero pursues
- well-endowed hero
- mid steam – 2 scenes (I think) in a novella length

My thoughts:
I was almost done with this book and I ended up losing all of my notes on it. So there’s something things I’m not 100% sure on, like the steam, but that’s okay. I won’t have content warnings for this one either, because if there were any, they were saved in my notes :(

I really enjoyed this one. I am such a fan of Mary Sarah’s narration. I just fall into her stories with a soothed smile on my face. I am always shocked by how much dislike she gets in the romance community. (*holds Mary Sarah comfortingly*)

Anywayyyy we get the story of Julia and Charles who have been in the background in a number of scenes throughout the series, as well as Charles mother, the intimidating prelude to every chapter, the dowager Marchioness. I’ll admit I didn’t pay much attention them, but I ended up really loving their story!

I think the heroine’s whole reason for her hesitancy and push back was a bit silly, but I am able to forgive that. I eat up hero pursues and he pursues her so hard in this one. So I was just happy as a clam reading this entire novel with it’s angsty chase.

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

Safe sex: 
No, but the heroine believes she is barren. 
 
I want to say there is a doggy style scene – he wants to take her like this because he’s obsessed with a freckle or something on her neck??
And maybe her on top?