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Summary: Fun, Engaging Summer Read!
Review: Another great read from Julia Quinn just in time for summer reading! As always, I love the characters with their usual humor and engaging dialogue. Turned each page expectantly. Also check out a fresh voice in romance from a male author -Shade of the Maple by Kirk Martin. Very deep with great insight, perfect by the pool. Saw it highlighted as a Top Pick in Romantic Times. Keep them coming, Ms. Quinn!
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Summary: not her best effort
Review: Julia Quinn is not one of my favorite authors (sorry, I know she has many loyal fans) however, I had found the books in the Bridgerton series enjoyable though definitely not keepers.
Romancing Mr. Bridgerton is the story of the shy wallflower Penelope Featherington and the dashing Colin Bridgerton. Penelope has been in love with Colin for most of her adult life however Colin was hardly even aware she existed most of the time. He saw her as his sister's friend and even pitied her a little. Colin returns from a trip abroad (the latest of many) and finally notices Penelope. This happens quite suddenly and this reader was never quite convinced of such a sudden attraction on Colin's part. What made Penelope so likeable and attractive all of a sudden? The reader is even told she hasn't changed much in the past eleven years. What was so different about her? If the author had explored this alittle further I think it would have made this a more entertaining read.I wish I could go further into the plot but I feel that it would spoil one of the main plots of the story, the identity of Lady Whistledown. In short I felt the book was bogged down in the middle by the whole Lady Whistledown identity plot specially when it was made fairly obvious in the first couple of chapters who it was. There were some very romantic and endearing scenes in this book, but you will have to slog through pages and pages of inane dialogue to get to them. Don't get me wrong I think Ms. Quinn is talented and she has some very brilliant moments in all of her books that cause me to recommend them. However, sometimes the dialogue in her novels, icluding this one, deteriorates from witty into idiotic very rapidly and I get the feeling she's merely filling up the pages. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a light read every once in a while. I DO NOT recommend it to any discriminating reader who may very well be turned off by Ms Quinn's anachronistic writing.
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Summary: HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT!
Review: I have been waiting for this book for months on end, but Julia Quinn, this time around, did not deliver. There was a decided lack of emotiveness, feeling, chemistry, call it what you will, on either Colin's or Penelope's part, especially Colin's. He appeared to go with the flow of the idea of being in love, and even after declaring his love, there was no that sense of well being one gets after reading a scene that is supposed to move you. For those who are reading JQ's book for the first time, then it can be passably good, but having read her earlier books, like the _Duke and I_, _Dancing At Midnight_, this one was terrible. Just to be generous 2 stars will suffice because it's JQ but otherwise......
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Summary: Wonderful book
Review: I loved this book. I couldn't put it down. i have enjoyed all the Bridgerton books and was so excited to see Colin get his story. I also like that the heroine in this story was not the typical heroine. Penelope is not the "young" debutant that most tend to be. She is considered a spinster at the ripe old age of 28! Of course at that time she was off the market.
She has been a family friend for years and Colin, even though he has always liked her, he never really looked at her or considered her more that another sister. Well that all changes when he comes back to London. Penelope has loved Colin since the first time she saw him. She has cherished every moment they have spent together and has accepted her fate as a spinster and thinks that those brief memories will be all she will have. How wrong she is. Now that Colin is having Penelope haunt his dreams he can't stay away from her and will do anything to protect her from any harm. Even keep her secrets. Together they shock society and even their own families when they reveal thier love for each other. Also the infamous Lady Whistledown plays a big part in the story like she has done in all the other books. I'd read these books in the order they came out to avoid confusion even though all the books are so well written they can stand alone. I can't wait for the series to continue.
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Summary: Delightful! More like 4 1/2 stars!
Review: This is my first Julia Quinn book and it won't be my last. I really enjoyed this book. Colin and Penelope were endearing characters - friends that turn into lovers. Poor Penelope has been the ultimate wallflower for the past ten years. Her coming out was a disaster and things haven't gotten much better since. Now she's 28 and an "on the shelf spinster". She is reacquainted with Colin, the brother of her best friend and the man she has carried a torch for since she was 16. She quietly adores him while outwardly carrying on a lighthearted friendship with him. She is realistic enough to accept that there will never be anything else between them. For Colin is "the most charming man in London", not to mention handsome, funny and just plain nice. As she spends more time with Colin, she is surprised to discover that he feels adrift with no real purpose in life. He wants to be thought of as something more than just "charming". Colin starts to see something in Penelope that he never recognized before. The more he is around her, the more he is surprised by her. She actually berates him for feeling sorry for himself and tells him to stop complaining and do something to change his life. She's smart, funny, independent, and no longer the frumpy, clumsy, utterly forgettable girl she used to be. OK, she is still a little clumsy, but now she's a self-posessed woman who is not afraid to speak her mind. And, Colin discovers much to his alarm, she's not so forgettable. He finds himself attracted to her, not just mentally but physically! Wow! I liked that the romance was pretty realistic given who these two people were. My only quibble is with Penelope's stubborn actions toward the end of the book. Why mess with a good thing? But all in all this was a fun, witty enjoyable read.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: Julia Quinn is one of my favorite authors, and I was anxiously awaiting this book. Unfortunately Romancing Mister Bridgerton was truly disappointing. Colin and Penelope's story could have been so much better, but it was trite and forced. One had to wonder what these characters saw in each other. Not that they were unlikable, but they were an unlikely couple. They lacked chemistry, the story lacked conflict - simply put, the book lacked the creativity and humor of Ms. Quinn's previous novels.
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Summary: THERE SHOULD BE MORE BOOKS LIKE THIS
Review: This book is just great! I think Julia Quinn is a fantastic author and this was her best book yet. It is a touching story of two old friends who fall in love. There aren't a lot of stories like this one out there, and that's a shame. I love the way the author creates deep and meaningful scenes between the hero and heroine without always resorting to sex scene after sex scene like many books i read and which gets boaring fast.This book is my favorite of the series and is different than many romance novels because instead of the characters letting their problems drive them apart they support each other and work together to solve their problems. I am so sick of romance novels in which the hero and heroine have a highly troubled relationship for the whole story and then magically arrive at some happy ending. I can't stress enough what a refreshing change this book was. If you are a fan of real romance, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Another great book by Julia Quinn
Review: The fourth installment in the Bridgerton series meets the high expectations set by the previous books. What seems to be a recurring topic in this genre again prevails - the girl is in love with prince charming who in turn is in love with the girl, but has not realized it yet.
Two things make this book(and the series) worth reading: the dialogue and the plot. Quinn succeeds in developing a banter between the main characters that is intelligent and funny. The other characters in the novel are also pretty well developed, setting the tone for the upcoming books in the series. She is wonderful at creating a story line, that although predictable, wraps the reader up from beginning to end.
I highly recommend this book to all romance fans, you will not be disappointed!
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Summary: Romancing Mr Bridgerton
Review: I am sorry to admit it but once again I have been silly enough to run out and purchase another Julia Quinn novel before just waiting for it to circulate in my local library. I do regret that because I have been dissapointed tremendously by the very slow pace of the story and the lack of genuine emotion the characters have for each other. Dont get me wrong, Ms. Quinn tries to convince us that certainly, the heroine does love the hero and has for quite some time but I'm sorry, I just cant buy that anymore than the lukewarm love the hero decides to have for her.
For the most part I found it a tedious crawl to finish the whole novel, only enjoying the Whistledown columns.
I think I could have stomached it much better had I not had to keep guessing at what the charcters were trying to convy, I just really couldn't understand why the main characters didnt understand WHY they were feeling the way they were feeling at times or doing some of the things that they would catch themselves doing....
'she didnt know why she was smiling, she just was'
And I dont know why i bought the book, no wait, yes I do....temporary collapse in judgement.
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Summary: Another Success in a Successful Series
Review: It's so hard to keep a series going and keep it fresh, but Quinn has managed this 4th installment with great success. The book is funny, witty and although a bit slow at a few places, the only reason it is so is because if you're a fan of the series you've just been WAITING for these two to get it together for so long! Quinn's novels have never completely bowled me over, I enjoy a couple other authors a little more reliably, but I am glad to add this one to my collection. Her solid writing and sense of humor are evident in each novel. The characters in this particular book are great to enjoy whether you've read the rest of the series or not. I was really intrigued by the thank you note the author included in the beginning - she thanks Stephanie Laurens and another author for the use of their characters - had me re-reading a lot of my other books too just to see which characters she was referring to.... :)
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