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Summary: almost 5 stars
Review: OK, I had to give this book 4 stars because not every book can get 5 stars! It is a wonderful book, dont' get me wrong, I just think that 5 stars should be saved for those books that are perfect!!This is the second novel in the "Bridgeton" series...following "The Duke and I" and followed "An Offer from a Gentleman" "Romancing Mr Bridgerton" "To Sir Phillip, With Love" and soon..."When He was Wicked." This is the story of the oldest Bridgerton sibling, Anthony, who goes searching for the "perfect" wife and finds a wife that is perfect for him! Kate is not searching for a husband at all...she is mostly around to keep Anthony away from her sister Edwina. Soon Kate finds herself in love and betrothed to a man who thinks himself incapable of love...it is up to Kate to change his mind and convince him that love lasts forever!
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Summary: Tested formula
Review: The second book of the Bridgerton series and it largely retained the style of the first book, The Duke and I. Somehow the men in Julia Quinn's stories were all foolishly refusing love, thus all the pain and anguish, until something snapped to shake some sense to them. It was still a charming read. However, I wish the plot twists could offer more surprises. Both books had similar plots: the men who refused to love, the sensible ladies, the forced marriage as a result of compromising situation, the anguish-filled escape, the near-death panic, the confession and forgiveness, and finally, happily ever after. But I did enjoy the book, which was filled with witty, sweet and sensual moments.
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Summary: Entertaining from start to finish!
Review: I read this book as soon as it hit the book shelves a couple years ago and I just read it again today. I have to say this is one of Quinn's best. Anthony Bridgerton is such a cad that you will be laughing through the entire book! He's constantly doing things to anger Kate and they are just really funny. I loved the game of Pall Mall, and being familiar with the other players of that game from her other books about them, it was fun to read again. I laughed throughout the entire scene. Quinn is a wonderfully witty writer. She goes into just enough detail to make her books fun, but not enough that you're literally skipping over paragraphs to get to the good parts (like Judith McNaught's historicals). I'm amazed how she comes up with just the right thing to write in just the right place. An entertaining read! Get her other books. Romancing Mr. Bridgerton/Everything and the Moon/To Catch an Heiress/Brighter than the Sun/The Duke and I/How to Marry a Marquis/ they're all fun, light reads!
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Summary: Entertaining and Emotionally Deeper
Review: Another entertaining novel in the Bridgerton family series! Here eldest brother Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton, has decided that it's time to marry to father an heir, so he almost randomly chooses Edwina Sheffield, one of the season's hottest debutantes. He chooses her more specifically because he knows she is someone he could never fall in love with. And the last thing Anthony would ever want would be to fall in love: it would be too painful given that he just knows he will die young like his father did. The only obstacle to Anthony's neat little plan is Kate Sheffield, Edwina's older half-sister, who is fast on the way to becoming a spinster. Kate despises Anthony the rake and will do everything in her power to prevent him from duping her sister into a marriage that she fervently believes will be unhappy for Edwina. Kate adores her sister and wishes only for her happiness. Anthony realizes that in order to get Edwina's consent, he must win over Kate. But he never bargains for the intense feelings the very independent and forceful Kate engenders in him. And Kate is dismayed to find that, after spending a lot of time with Anthony, she actually likes him. She comes to see beyond the roguish façade. But Anthony is determined to avoid true love at all costs. Quinn nicely continues in this novel to explore more character depth. There is not as much witty dialogue as in previous books, but this suits Anthony and Kate, haunted as they are by their problems. A lovely friendship and moving tenderness gradually develops between them-the reader can really feel how and why they fall in love.
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Summary: Fun and easy read.
Review: I recieved two of her books this last week this book was one,and An Offer was the second. I really enjoyed this book for a romance it was light,funny and yet had a serious side as well. Through all of it's lightness a deep enduring and precious love developed between Anthony and Kate that I really enjoyed. Mrs. Bridgerton is a mother that everyone dreams I'm sure and her stepmother Mary was also a very loving and caring person. An all aroung good book. If you like romances with wit, humor doused with some serious side bars read these novels I highly recommend them.
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Summary: Delightful and touching.....
Review: A tender and touching romantic romp. This is the story of Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sheffield. It starts out all in a tangle with Anthony setting his cap for Kate's younger sister. Through much of the novel Anthony and Kate have a sparring and antagonistic repartee which masks a growing physical and emotional attraction. Anthony has decided on the younger sister due to the very fact that he does not and will not love her. He does not want a love match and merely wants a wife in name only. He finds himself dreaming of Kate....looking at Kate....and wondering what it is like to kiss Kate. Eventually they are caught in a compromising situation and are forced to marry which is all to the good. They are perfect for each other. He is sensitive and she is distinctive. There are a number of things that make this a quintissential Julia Quinn. The wedding night scene is touching and poignant and loving. Anthony seduces and reassures Kate that she is the only one he wants when she is sure that he is thinking of another. it is an intensely emotional scene that brought tears to my eyes. We should all have such a man! There are some very funny scenes in this book. The Bridgerton Pall Mall scene is a riot. it is a mallet game like croquet or something like that but it is hilarious. Kate's dog is a never ending source of amusement. Buy this book you cannot go wrong.
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Summary: Too bland, really not my style.
Review: Julia Quinn's style hasn't managed to convince me. Maybe is is just me, but sometimes I feel that her novels lack deep feeling. Some of her books I have enjoyed, like "An Offer from a Gentleman" and "The Duke and I", but this one, I don't know, it just doesn't have it.
I remember that when I started reading the book, I would shake my head in disbelief about some of the things I was reading, now I can't even remember what those were (that's the impact this book had on me)
It bothered me to keep reading how beautiful and perfect Edwina was, and how plain and unatractive Kate was in comparision.
I din't like Anthony very much in "The Duke and I", I thought he was meddlesome, overprotective, petulant and intransigent. I know that he was trying to protect his sister, but really, enough is enough. I thought that challenging his best friend to a duel, and being willing to kill him, just because he compromised his sister was too much, after all, nobody but him found out about that, and that duel, far from helping Daphne, would have detroyed her reputation beyond repair. But anyway, this is not part of this book, although I commented on this because after all, it has to do with Anthony. Now, on this book, he finds his female counterpart, a girl that is as annoyingly overprotective of her sister as he is. But really, those two make me want to scream at them, Mind you own bussiness! It is not that I don't like them, I know that they mean well, and if they act that way is because they care about their families, but they get really annoying at times.
The book is funny, I have to hand it that, the scene about the park and the dog made me laugh for several minutes, but I was looking for romanticism, not comedy, and truly, the scene of their wedding night, when he tickles her, is just ridiculous and most unromantic. Also, I keep having trouble finding hilarious the things Quinn's characters laugh about. It seems to me that they laugh without any justifiable reason.
Maybe it is just me, seeing that other readers have rated this book so highly. But for me, it was..how to put it?...unremarkable.
Now I'm reading "Romancing Mr.Bridgerton", and even though I'm only in the first chapter and it is too soon to judge the book, I'm liking it so far. I hope is better than this one.
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Summary: Fabulous!
Review: This book was a treat to read, a real delight! This story is about Kate and Anthony (The eldest of the Bridgeton 8 children). He is a rake and a rogue, but very devoted to his family. Unfurtunately he has to take over his family soon in life (at 18) because of the sudden unexpected death of his father. Kate on the other hand is a very nice woman, but she is also strong, and unfurtunately not as beautiful as her sister, and unfurtunately because everyone compares her to her sister, but Kate's so used to it that she doesnt mind anymore. 12 years after the death of his father Anthony decides to find a wife, a smart, attractive, humorous and great to get along with wife. He sets his eyes on Edwina, Kate's sister, but Kate will not allow a man like Anthony (no matter how reformed our rogue/rake is) take her sister as his wife. Thus this 2 characters clash! Julia Quinn has a very unique writting style which i completely admire and love. She presents this story in such a realistic way you feel like you are right there with the characters feeling what they feel. Also, and a major plus, its that Anthony and Kate's relationship evolves slowly, it is not from over night, which is something very hard to find in similar plots in other romance novels. Quinn is easily one of my favorite authors even though i recently stumble upon her magnificent work!
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Summary: Not Quinn's Best
Review: There are many reasons for me to like this book (one being that it *is* JQ and the other being that Anthony *is* a Bridgerton ;)) BUT there are more reasons for me to NOT like this book. I like the Bridgerton brothers very, very much. Anthony has always been some what of a fascination for me, mainly the way he eases into his father's role is very admirable. Kate Sheffield is really a pretty likeable character (unlike Warrior's Song's Chandra, who is so stupidly stubborn it was almost painful to read her) who is both kind and firm and loving towards her family. THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME is a book full of potential -- 2 wonderful characters with common sorrows and fears and the possibility of a common dream between the two of them is quite exhillarating. The Problem then falls with JQ's management of the two characters; she *hasn't* managed to show me HOW they fell in love. She hasn't managed to show me the kind of emotional depth Benedict and Sophie shared despite all her paragraphs on the "feelings" Anthony and Kate have for each other. One reason why it didn't work for me is that all of these paragraphs are always about the same things! They are so blatantly repettitive that it wasn't neccessary to read them to get what she was saying. I just didn't feel the kind of storm love should conjure between two individuals. I'm sad that this novel fell "flat" (as one brave reviewer put it) because I truly did liked the both of them. However, this book has some gems... Colin, as always, has some of the best teases and fun. The PallMall scene at the ancestral seat of Bridgerton is very, very amusing. The twist about Kate is surprising, but I still don't like the book. Sorry 'bout that.
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Summary: I have read this one over and over and over again
Review: I cried in this book.. not because it was really sad but just so good.. I felt for the chars and it was just a very good story line between Anthony and Kate .. she is a heroine I can relate with .. not to beautiful not to charming .. just real! I love it..
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