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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This follows the series very closely, but was still an enjoyable read.
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Really enjoyed listening to this book.
Lacking so much of what makes good historical fiction great: textures, sounds, places, colors, flavors. This reads very much like a tv novelization, which it is, but there was so much more potential here.
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Just like the show! You do get more of George inner dialogue and he is so sassy, I love it
4.5✨
I still remember the feels the show gave me and I believe everyone and their grandmothers wanted that show to be 100 eps long. Charlotte and George are so precious I wanna give them a hug and keep them in my pocket. Listening to the audiobook still made me feel kilig (butterflies but better) and i wish the show included more of the hilarious banter between the two. I like how the show really kept the essence of the book and didnt really stray much away from it. Theres still differences such as agatha’s side affair with the dad?. Maybe the reason why it wasnt in the book maybe bc this particular side plot was only included in the show? Not sure. i havent read the bridgerton books. I didnt know the “i will tell you where you are” scene was coming up but you bet I was reciting the whole dialogue with them
I still remember the feels the show gave me and I believe everyone and their grandmothers wanted that show to be 100 eps long. Charlotte and George are so precious I wanna give them a hug and keep them in my pocket. Listening to the audiobook still made me feel kilig (butterflies but better) and i wish the show included more of the hilarious banter between the two. I like how the show really kept the essence of the book and didnt really stray much away from it. Theres still differences such as agatha’s side affair with the dad?. Maybe the reason why it wasnt in the book maybe bc this particular side plot was only included in the show? Not sure. i havent read the bridgerton books. I didnt know the “i will tell you where you are” scene was coming up but you bet I was reciting the whole dialogue with them
Quickest I've ever read a book, I was hanging onto each word
You can definitely tell that Quinn got some help in this one. This was much funnier than the other books which was nice, and I liked that there were things going on other than the romance. I think the thing that I disliked about it is everything they added about race, NOT FOR THE SAME REASONS THAT BEN SHAPERIO WOULD DISLIKE IT. I think that the way that the show has handled race up to this point was good, having it be color blind but incorporating some other cultures as well like with the second season. When you start to actually analyze race there are implications to that. It is already hard to root for the Queen of England already knowing the horrors of colonialism, but the implications of having an openly Black queen if a nation whose wealth is built on slavery and subjugation of people that look like her and have her not think about that at all is weird, it felt kind of jarring. I think that if the rest of the world was more fleshed out, the history of having non white people in the ton at all, having some sort of history would help us understand the context of this world and how it differs from actual history. Without that we assume that the history is the same as in our world. I also was confused by the premise of the book? I am unsure as to why the ton needed to be integrated in the first place? Why would they choose Charlotte when they were racist? They would definitely care much more about having an ‘impure bloodline’. Just wish that there was more internal consistency. Maybe I missed something, but overall it's hard to stop questioning and thinking about the actual history of England when you open the can.
Genuinely enraged by reading the line “She had spoken truth to power”, because Julia Quinn, notorious racist, has stolen this line and stripped it of its meaning. What happened to “I don’t write books with black or homosexual characters because I only write happy endings”? I hope to god they used a ghostwriter and actually paid this one (another established author was offered a measly four figure sum to ghostwrite, and obviously refused), because if Julia Quinn actually wrote this without apologizing for her previous comments, I have a serious problem will all involved parties.
Merged review:
Genuinely enraged by reading the line “She had spoken truth to power”, because Julia Quinn, notorious racist, has stolen this line and stripped it of its meaning. What happened to “I don’t write books with black or homosexual characters because I only write happy endings”? I hope to god they used a ghostwriter and actually paid this one (another established author was offered a measly four figure sum to ghostwrite, and obviously refused), because if Julia Quinn actually wrote this without apologizing for her previous comments, I have a serious problem will all involved parties.
Merged review:
Genuinely enraged by reading the line “She had spoken truth to power”, because Julia Quinn, notorious racist, has stolen this line and stripped it of its meaning. What happened to “I don’t write books with black or homosexual characters because I only write happy endings”? I hope to god they used a ghostwriter and actually paid this one (another established author was offered a measly four figure sum to ghostwrite, and obviously refused), because if Julia Quinn actually wrote this without apologizing for her previous comments, I have a serious problem will all involved parties.
Merged review:
Genuinely enraged by reading the line “She had spoken truth to power”, because Julia Quinn, notorious racist, has stolen this line and stripped it of its meaning. What happened to “I don’t write books with black or homosexual characters because I only write happy endings”? I hope to god they used a ghostwriter and actually paid this one (another established author was offered a measly four figure sum to ghostwrite, and obviously refused), because if Julia Quinn actually wrote this without apologizing for her previous comments, I have a serious problem will all involved parties.
Merged review:
Genuinely enraged by reading the line “She had spoken truth to power”, because Julia Quinn, notorious racist, has stolen this line and stripped it of its meaning. What happened to “I don’t write books with black or homosexual characters because I only write happy endings”? I hope to god they used a ghostwriter and actually paid this one (another established author was offered a measly four figure sum to ghostwrite, and obviously refused), because if Julia Quinn actually wrote this without apologizing for her previous comments, I have a serious problem will all involved parties.