Reviews with content warning for Sexual content - El corazón de una Bridgerton

When he was wicked- 3.75⭐️ 3.5🌶️

This is the young widdow/remarriage/he fell first/ forbidden love book plots

The tension and pining on Michael’s part is good, but how many times are they going to be stuck in the rain? Or rained on? Or in the middle of a rain storm?

I hated how this book messed with the timelines. With it happening while 2 of the other books are happening made it real confusing.

The book is the most like a standalone. But in place of the bridgerton family you got John, but you don’t get to actually get to know him and why he was so great… you only get the guilt associated with him.

I liked Francesca, but I have a soft spot for typical middle children… and she definitely is one. She is barely mentioned in the other books, hardly any of her first love story is talked about while it’s happening.

Michael is delicious, but has the Julia Quinn typical man temper.

All this to say, I still really liked the book!

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emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Loved Francesca’s story, and Michael was a great hero and love interest

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sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

Definitely a second chance romance. I liked the premise that Michael is instantly in love with his cousin John's wife, Francesca Bridgerton, which is obviously a forbidden romance, but I wasn't expecting Francesca to be deeply in love with John. When he dies early in the book (very suddenly - an aneurysm? idk), she's completely devastated. They had been married like 2-3 years (I forget) when he died and she finally was pregnant too. But when she miscarries, Michael inherits the earldom. This is where I thought they would get together but instead

Michael goes to India for 2 years because he can't stand the situation that he still wants Francesca yet he feels deep guilt that John died.

Francesca runs the estate while he's gone but when he comes back to England everyone decides it's time for him to find a wife. And Francesca also enters the marriage market as she desperately wants a baby and needs to remarry for that. Yet it never occurs to her nor any of their relatives that she and Michael should marry. This is completely unbelievable. It would have been extremely common for a widow to marry the man who inherits the estate. Instead we watch them both prepare, buying new clothes, going to balls. Francesca quickly finds herself highly sought after as she is wealthy, beautiful, and "like a virgin who knows what to do" as she has an impeccable reputation since John died.

Francesca's brothers, Colin in particular, suggests to Michael that he should marry her and Michael finally decides he should. So he plans to seduce Francesca to get her to agree, and she's helpless to resist his advances. But even after being together she refuses to marry him because she's all confused by her feelings of guilt. It's not until Michael gets very sick with the flu or something and she worries he could die that she realizes she loves Michael. They agree to marry. In the 2nd epilogue she is still struggling to get pregnant. Then it time skips one year later and she has a baby boy named John which she reveals to her mother Violet (wtf??? She didn't mention she was pregnant nor had a baby until she shows up for a visit. That is just dumb).

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