To Sir Phillip, With Love
Ratings118
Average rating3.4
I adored this second epilogue, and I really really REALLY want to read an Amanda book now.
This book was such an inferior instalment in this series. We lose so much of the wit and chemistry of the other books.
The female lead is different from when she was in the other books in the series. I expected a stronger more female-empowered romance. What we got was a childish and bossy female lead and a terrible father male lead who just wants someone else to deal with his children. Both characters get better as the book goes on but not by enough.
It’s hard to get past how terrible the male lead is. His complete neglect of the children is not endearing and throughout the book, he only seems to want a wife to handle them. Don’t bother with this book.
maybe 2.5 cause the end was cute? idk. the whole book was just them arguing with each other and philip annoys the ever living fuck outta me, sorry :/
Having come from the TV show into the book I was disappoint that this was Eloise's story. The wit and banter is a bit part of the series' appeal and a big chunk of the middle of the book was Eloise sitting by herself not talking to anyone. It improved once her brother's arrived but out of the five books so far this was the hardest to read.
It was a good a book, however, I had a love-hate relationship with the characters...mainly Phillip
Phillip is in need of a wife and a mother to his children, Eloise wants to get married as she feels lonely ever since her best friend got married. But in all honesty he just wanted a mother to the children that he can't seem to control and doesn't know anything about (as he doesn't spend anytime with them). He barely knew his kids likes and dislikes before Eloise came. He also wasn't happy with his first wife, his first wife was depressed to the point where she was suicidal. He used that as an excuse to get Eloise to do what he wants as his first wife never wanted to do anything with him.
The children were spoiled and bratty, always got away with things because Phillip was never around (always working), that was up until Eloise came and changed the family.
Hmm...
Two “breaths they didn't know they were holding”.
“She wasn't wearing a shift” - yeah, she was. Is it because of books like this the costumers think they can show girls in costume movies and series wearing their corsets on bare skin? They didn't. They wouldn't. Because 1) corsets are difficult to clean, and they weren't dirty bitches, and 2) it's not comfortable to wear a corset against bare skin.
It's not funny to have four guys burst into your dining room, abuse the butler and abuse the lord of the manor. And then have the heroines ponder about how these guys are the gentlest, kindest, wisest, best men in the world.
Also, the magic of the willow bark... hmm.
This was obviously a quick write. It was a quick read, too, and there was quite a lot of romance, so I can understand why Julia Quinn is a popular romance novelist. She is rather good, actually. But... because of some of the choices, only 3 stars.
I have no idea how they are going to consolidate this Eloise with the Netflix Eloise. I LOVED the epilogue.
The low-key thread through this series is that boys are dumb and men are trash. And I'm a fan
Okay but how are they going to incorporate this into the nextflix show?
De ontgoocheling in de Bridgerton boeken zet zich voor mij voort in dit vijfde boek, het boek van Eloise, één van mijn favoriete personages uit de Netflix-serie.
Opnieuw ontbrak het mij aan een geloofwaardige connectie of chemie tussen de twee protagonisten. Misschien als we wat meer van de correspondentie tussen Eloise en Phillip te lezen hadden gekregen had ik het allemaal veel beter kunnen verteren, maar nu viel het bij mij allemaal nogal flets.
Het personage van Phillip lag mij totaal niet. Terwijl hij bij de introductie wel potentieel had, werd die verwachting totaal niet ingelost bij het verdere verhaal.
Ook Eloise vond ik maar tweedimensionaal, waarbij haar enige speciale kenmerk gereduceerd wordt tot het zijn van een flapuit en kletskous.
Ik zou denken dat er met een personage in een boek veel meer diepgang kan worden gecreëerd, doordat je letterlijk in de personages hun hoofd zit, maar in het geval van Eloise verkies ik precies haar tv-incarnatie.
Read this in one afternoon! This was great fun and I really thoroughly enjoyed pretty much everything about it. It would be 5 stars but i was a bit bothered with the handling of post partum depression and depression in general but I guess it was true to the time period so i can't ding it too much.
I look forward to the rest of this series!