erieberrie 's review for:

When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
5.0

Read this in 2022 and just reread it in 2025. Just as good as I remembered it and I was afraid my memory wouldn’t do it justice. It was heartbreaking the first time and still was the second time. But I still loved it. Francesca’s struggle with loss and her desire to have a family is storyline that’s not that common in the genre, especially among the other Bridgerton novels. Some trigger warnings probably should have been included (unless I missed them?). Francesca’s struggles hit home for me but honestly also felt healing. I am a bit protective of this book and will be sad if Netflix changes too much.