4.5

Romancing Mr. Bridgerton

Julia Quinn
Audiobook
May
2021

Review:

This was really good but not great for the same reasons the first two were. I actually did not love the romance, and it seemed too easy for the two main characters to figure things out. But I absolutely loved the Lady Whistledown reveal and how cool it was that it was Penelope. I love both Penelope and Eloise, so this was a great book to show how they are in the tv show. I still like tv show Eloise better because she took some of Daphne's traits, and she is just a relatable and cool chapter. It was so nice to see how and why Penelope is lady Whistledown. I did not love that Eloise gets married and seems a little unhappy, although that might change when I read the next book. I wonder what will happen in the next books when there is no lady Whistledown. I wonder if someone new will become her or what. We will see... I am excited to read the next couple of books and when the second book is available for me to read that.

Trigger Warnings:
Fatmisia and Blackmail

Synopsis From Book:

Everyone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London. Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for...well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret...and fears she doesn't know him at all. Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of everyone's preoccupation with the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can't seem to publish an edition without mentioning him in the first paragraph. But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad he discovers nothing in his life is quite the same - especially Penelope Featherington! The girl haunting his dreams. But when he discovers that Penelope has secrets of her own, this elusive bachelor must decide...is she his biggest threat - or his promise of a happy ending?
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