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Summary: Out of all of the books in the series, this was the best
Review: It had been a while since I really read any books. I mostly wrote, so reading took a back seat. Then, one day at college I felt a little board and so I leafed through a box of romance books that I my parents had given to me to take with me. Not that I remembered taking them with me and somehow there they were. But I digress. So I picked up this book, Romancing Mr. Bridgerton and read what it was about. Then I sat back in my bed and started to read it. And immediately I fell in love, one with Penelope (cause she reminded me of myself) then I fell head over heels for Colin. As the day grew to an end I realized I finished the book. It is an amazing book in that it totally flips around the normal male female characters.
Although Colin appears as the heroic in the beginning, we find him to be ridden with insecurities and such. Also, in all of the books that Julia writes that have her pre-marriage, she is described as a "wallflower" to be precise. But once Julia gets into both characters we see their other sides. Penelope, we find, is extemely complex for a wallflower. What with having her own momentous secret and her vast intelligence (gasp a woman in 1800 with a brain). And then Colin, although smooth, suave, and oh so sexy on the outside, is just as complex inside with his own secret.
Regardless, it truly is a magnificent book if you have a vivid imagination and enjoy movies and books about jolly ol' England. And Julia is an amazing and talented writer that she can bring to life the sights and sounds and characters in her books into your imagination.
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Summary: A Nice Twist on Regency Romance
Review: Penelope Featherington is not a "diamond of the first water" she's not young and sought after and eyelash flutteringly innocent. Thank goodness! No, she's 28, a spinster and has never received a single proposal.
Colin Bridgerton is a handsome rogue and he knows it. He's charming and the ladies love him but he feels at a loose end. His brothers have purpose in life but he feels that he's got nothing. His return to England after so much travel has left him wanting something but not knowing what.
Of course, if you've read the other books in the series you know that Penelope has been in love with Colin since she was 16 and that he likes her but has always felt sorry for her. This all changes when he begins to see that there's more to Penelope than meets the eye.
That's really what made me like this book so much, that the female lead isn't a blushing virgin, she's smart and witty and the handsome rakish male isn't some dominating force. I like their chemistry.
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Summary: funny wonderful
Review: Perhaps Penelope Featherington is the ancestor of the loser-heroine who finally got the best of the bunch! Sure, Anthony and Benedict Bridgerton are both handsome, charismatic, rich and gorgeous but the best of the Bridgerton men is Colin. Why? He has a very good sense of humor, totally cool and totally clueless that his one match in all the world is just the one person he never thought he would want to marry: his sister's best friend Penelope Featherington. Penelope started out as an awkward teenager who is used to being a wallflower, who is usually rescued by the Bridgerton brothers from embarrassment in all the balls, and who secretly loves Colin Bridgerton.Colin might be clueless in how Penelope felt about him and how he felt for her but his feelings developed in a realistic way. He came to appreciate Penelope not only for her looks but also for her intellect, her wit, her personality --now how many men in this lifetime still has this trait? "Romancing Mr. Bridgerton" is a must read for people who still believe that love is not only skin deep.
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Summary: GREAT!!!
Review: This is my second Julia Quinn book, and my obssession to her writing is growing immensely. In this novel, she specifically writes as if you're watching a movie instead of reading a book. The "movie description" is not meant for the plot but for the dialogues themselves. Sometimes it's annoying and tiresome when writers explain everything, detail by detail, as if you're too stupid to figure things out for urself. That's what I like about Quinn; she's not worried if her readers might misunderstand some context on her writings. "Romancing Mister Bridgerton" is not the best in the series(I'm assuming for this is just my second quinn, as metioned b4) but it was fun to read. When I read a second novel from the same author, I usually expect repetitions or patterns on the plots. I was surprised and pleased that it is not so in Quinn's case. In this novel, she writes about the kind of love that "starts with a smile, a word a teasing glance" instead of the "thunderbolt-from-the-sky" type on "An Offer from a Gentleman." I find myself engrossed on every chapters and (shockingly) on the emotional scenes(I used to have a neutral facade when trying to read those kind of scenes on romance novels because they're so predictable), but Quinn had changed that. She also doesn't end the novel with a make-up chapter or a marriage. Here, she poured a part of herself that is a writer. Colin and Penelope had learned that each of them has a talent for writing. It made me think of the author herself, as I read the part where they are discussing one's joy when he/she find the exact words for their feelings or descriptions for their surroundings. Of course after good things, there's always a bad thing, even a small one. To be fair and not be called biased, I have to say that the story is a little bit slow in the beggining. Some of the should-be-witty comments turned out not to be witty at all. All in all, the strong points will definitely beat these weaknesses. It should be obvious by now that I absolutely recommend this book to everybody. Pls dont judge the cover by the cheap harlequin type picture on the 1st page. I almost didnt read it bcoz of that. I hope the publishers will give Ms. Quinn's talent a little bit more credit. But I think, Quinn, being the writer, is a 100% aware of the cover so I might as well direct my plea to her.
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