So as many of you may know who are diehard fans like me berger 10 season 2 is coming out march 25th and like many of you in the world i am so freaking excited so i figured that this was probably the perfect time to go grab all of the books or most of the books in the series and basically binge read them before the show comes out hey everyone it's jenny and welcome back to my channel the story ain't over today i'm Going to be expressing my bridgeton love and reading the books in this series
and giving you a little bit of a review on each of them as i read them throughout the next couple of weeks before the release of the second season of the show so the show comes out march 25th and it's currently march 12th today when i'm filming this intro i have already read the first two books so far and i'm going to be reading the next three books as well of the series which follow the Other bridgerton siblings in the show and i'm hoping that after reading all of these books i'll feel really hyped for
the second season just for context when the first season of the show came out originally i didn't really know too much about it but just seeing the trailer for it i got super excited because it was a regency romance i absolutely loved jane austen novels and it just seemed like the perfect thing that i would enjoy and so i definitely went ahead and binged it The second it came out i fell in love with it and i meant to read the books way back then but never got around to it and so with the second
season coming out i knew i needed to get ahead and read the books before the second season came out i'm particularly excited for the second season as well because the main character kate is played by a south asian woman she's thermal indian simone ashley and if you guys didn't know i'm thuml and seeing this representation is All i really live for and she's just gorgeous and i am so excited to see her on screen and see her and anthony's romance in the second season so i'm just overall really really hyped so as i said i'm
gonna be reading these five books in the bridgerton series by julia quinn i'm going with these five there are like i think three more books with the younger three siblings of the bridgerton family and i personally don't really care for those characters That much at this moment because we haven't really seen much of them in the show so i'm not like super excited for them and i feel like they are books that i could probably read later if we end up getting more of those characters in the show so i want to focus on these
five books and these five siblings in the burgerton family so the first book is the duke and i which features daphne's story that we know from the first season second book is the vi count who loved me Which features anthony's story which we'll be seeing in the second season the third book is an offer from a gentleman and this is actually benedict's story which i'm super excited for because i love his character in the show and i think he's hilarious so i'm curious to see how this will go the fourth book is romancing mr bridgerton
and this features both colin and a penelope's story and i'm super excited for this one because of the things we know about Penelope from the show and this should be very very interesting and then the last book that i'll be picking up which is the fifth book in the series is to sir philip with love and this is eloise's story eloise is probably my favorite character from the bridgerton show and like from the family of them so i cannot wait to see how she falls in love so those are all the books on the docket
for this video i'm going to be vlogging at this experience and giving You my review on each and i just want to say that if you are watching this video and you haven't watched season one of the show you're gonna get spoiled so please go watch it before you watch this video and if you don't wanna know anything about the books you don't wanna get spoiled about like future things that could happen in the show it's probably not a good idea to watch this video because i'm gonna be spoiling myself by reading the books but
i'm Excited because i feel like the show has taken a lot of liberties and sort of added extra content to the books which makes it a little bit more exciting and fun to watch as i said when i'm filming this intro clip i've already read the first two books so i've already seen the additions that they've made in the show and it's been really interesting to sort of experience that so those are just the disclaimers that i'm putting out here Let's get into my thoughts on the duke and i [Music] i definitely ended up enjoying
this one a lot more than i expected to which is saying something i think i went into the series expecting it to be very traditional romance and sort of the type of thing that i wouldn't really enjoy but i found myself the entire time falling in love with the banter of the characters and their chemistry on the Page i think one thing that the show doesn't do justice to is showing the chemistry between the characters that is beyond the sexual tension i think they're really good at the sexual tension and sort of the longing glances
but i think some of the romantic aspects are done a teeny bit better in the books just because we get more context we get more scenes and we get to see them sort of talk together more and how they would sort of act on a regular basis which i Kind of really loved as many people know this book in particular and the first season of the show has a really problematic scene in it which involves consent i'm not gonna go into the details but i do think that as opposed to the show the book is
actually not as bad the book really shows it as a spur of the moment thing which again not great also but the show definitely portrays it as more of a premeditated thing that daphne does which Makes it sort of worse i think personally i don't know i would love to discuss this aspect let me know what you think of the difference between the book and the show when it comes to that scene if you've read the book because personally i think that it's not as bad in the book it's definitely awful but it's not as
bad in the book i can definitely see how this having been published so many years ago kind of got past the checkpoints in traditional Publishing and you know was put out like this regardless of those issues i think this book was actually a lot of fun i loved seeing their personalities i actually really liked daphne as a character a little bit more than i like her in the show but two things that surprised me the most about sort of getting into this book was one how little of these side characters and other siblings we actually
get in the book i feel like the book is really Focused on the two main characters and the main romance and so we get small little tidbits of everyone else but there's actually not much content about the other siblings in the book itself which is surprising because this is like 400 pages but it's like literally all simon and daphne whereas in the show we get so many other plot lines with all these different characters and i'm starting to think that a lot of those plot lines are coming from later books In the series where those
characters get to be the main characters or maybe it's just stuff that they've added to the story there are definitely plot points in the first season that do not show up at all in this book a couple in particular are the prince character who is like not even a character in this book and also the queen she's not even a character in the book and i don't even think in the later books either and so i feel like both of those characters are Added for increased tension in the story and increase stakes and i actually
really love those editions but it's just interesting to see that they're not even in the books another thing that's not in the book is the whole situation with colin and with the character in the show who gets pregnant i forget her name but she was like a major subplot in the show in that first season so it was really interesting to see that she wasn't even a character in the book but i'm curious To see if she like shows up in colin's book later on in the series or if she's just in addition to the
show that they added both for like colin's sort of storyline but also really for penelope i think she really adds to penelope's story as well so i just find it all really interesting like the choices that the showrunners decided to make and the plot lines that they decided to add to the show to sort of amp it all up one thing i noticed particularly while Reading this book was how much i actually really liked anthony in this book and she is actually portrayed as a bit of an ass in the show he is horrible in
the way that he doesn't listen to daphne through most of the beginning of the show but i feel like in the books he's actually quite supportive and he is there for daphne at many points and he is definitely not trying to shove this like marriage down her throat and you know make her be with someone that she Doesn't want to be with he is obviously concerned for her and one thing that actually happens in the book that i don't think happens in the show is that simon and daphne actually come clean to anthony quite early
in their fake dating situation and the entire time anthony's like don't fall for each other he's a rake he shouldn't be with him and all that but it's really out of concern and he's honestly just like less of an ass and i really liked him in the book i Kind of wish he was more like the book anthony in the show but i feel like part of the reason why he is the way he is in the show is to up the progression of his character arc and see the way that he changes hopefully in
the second season so overall i felt like this was a great read fun romance loved you know the chemistry between characters this wasn't my favorite like storyline i would say i have heard from many of you who have read the entire series that the later Books are actually much better so i'm excited i'd probably rate this one at 3.5 stars it was fun enjoyable definitely not the best thing i've read but i do really love julia quinn's writing she definitely feels like a more accessible jane austen and just the way she writes her characters and
the romance and just the writing itself feels very jane austen so i'm loving the vibes and those are basically my major thoughts about this first book i'll get Back to you on the second [Music] alrighty friends book two the vi count who loved me anthony's story just right off the bat i really really loved this one this was definitely more of a favorite than the duke and i i love the way that anthony and kate's relationship progresses across the book and also the way that the theme of grief played a really major part in this
story as i said in my review of the duke and i i Definitely think that anthony is way less of an ass in the books than he is in the show he really gets on my nerves in the show but in the books he is such a sweetie he has way more depth to him i feel like or at least that we get to see and i just really think that he's a lot more of a carrying a character than he appears in the show i feel like the show also ups this sense of conflict
between anthony and his mother whereas their relationship in this book in particular Is so so sweet especially because they're both sort of grieving his father and trying to get through that together there are scenes with them in their old home where they're remembering his father and they were just so touching and i just felt for anthony so so much aside from absolutely loving anthony's character in this book i also really really loved kate sheffield so in the book her name is kate sheffield and her younger sister is edwina but in the show They have changed
the names to fit the actresses who are playing the characters and so it's kate sharma and edwina sharma as i said at the beginning of this video i'm so excited for season two because kate is played by a south asian woman i am south asian she's also thermal i'm also thermal and so i'm super excited for that representation and also all the things that they're going to be adding to the story to sort of fit that representation but Irregardless of that i actually really love kate's character in this book and also her sister's character and
the way that the story really takes a hate to love sort of format or trope so they start out really not liking each other and kate not wanting him to court her younger sister but of course as the book progresses they start to fall for each other and just seeing the way that their opinion of each other changes as they get to know each other better was just So great and just a wonderful romance i also love that in this book kate was a bit of an older character they're talking about how she's like almost
a spinster when she's like only 25 or something actually maybe even younger i feel like she was like 22 or something but she has a little bit more experience i would say than daphne does in the first book and so that was a bit of a refreshing take as well overall this was so much fun had so many great scenes the Paul mall scene was so fantastic and i can't wait to see how they bring it to life on screen and i think overall i just really enjoyed my time with this one a little bit
more than the duke and i just because i also didn't know the story going into it so i was surprised by more things and i also just personally liked anthony and kate's characters more in this book than i liked simon and daphne this book also had some like really just heartwarming Scenes towards the end and just like you know cuddle up on a sunday morning and read this because it's just so sweet and cute type of scenes which i loved overall i think i'm just super excited to see this on screen having read it first
because i feel like the show just adds so many other extra bits and you know extra stakes that having read the book first is gonna make it a lot more fun because i've already fallen in love with the Characters and now i'm just gonna get to see more of them i feel like this experiment is going really really well so i can't wait to read the next books in the series i'd love to hear from you guys though which is your favorite scene from this book and which one are you most excited to see adapted
for screen those are all my thoughts on the vi count who loved me i will get back to you on the next book an offer from a gentleman [Music] alrighty friends book three an offer from a gentleman so this is benedict's story and guys this was definitely my favorite so far i'm pretty sure it's gonna be my favorite of the entire series but i don't want to call it yet i don't want to jinx it we'll see it was so fantastic and i had actually put up a poll to you guys on my instagram asking
what your favorite book of the series was if you had read it and a lot of you Had said like you did the second one or like this one or a later one whatever but a lot of you did mention that this one was really cheesy and i was like oh this is interesting but i understand why many of you said that it's because this book is structured like a cinderella story it is basically a cinderella story so the main character sophie is the illegitimate bastard of this earl and he gets remarried when she's like
10 or something she has these two daughters She's awful she's definitely like the evil stepmother and her father ends up dying and so rather than being like this fake ward of his like distant cousin which is what he was telling everyone she ends up being relegated to a servant basically a slave to her stepmother and just having this really awful time growing up she goes from being someone of higher status justice like ward and getting demoted to a lower class and so she's the person who benedict falls in Love with in this book and i
honestly from like page one to the end was so captivated by this story i think part of the reason is because the reasons that they can't be together are much larger than themselves rather than a personal flaw or like trauma or something affecting their relationship it's because of you know larger societal issues that they can't be together she is of a different class and so they have to sort of work through that and figure It out and she also just like has all this like past and history that she doesn't really want to share with
him and so it's a matter of like figuring that out as well so i'm sure a lot of people didn't really love the whole cinderella thing or thought it was too cheesy or dramatic or whatever but i personally loved it it was what made the book for me it just made it so much more exciting and fun there is a lot more i feel like drama to this and like stakes To it than the other two books had i do feel like the show adds a lot more stakes but this book in particular had the
most stakes out of the other books i also just loved benedict in this book he was fantastic i'd always loved benedict i love him in the show i love every time he appears in the first two books but we got to see a lot more of him we get to see him and his art which is one thing i think that they sort of plucked from his book and start showing a lot more Earlier in the show because it doesn't really show up in the first and second books he was definitely like very arrogant and
annoying and frustrating at some points but i still found him endearing and like he was a fun character to follow and he was also very sort of self-aware when he was being stupid and arrogant like he would say something dumb and he'd be like okay that was dumb but i don't care kind of thing or he would apologize for it later I just feel like he was a lot more endearing than simon or anthony was in my opinion like i liked him as a character a lot more on the note of loving characters i absolutely
loved love loved sophie she's probably my favorite heroine of the three that i've seen i really do love kate as well but sophie was just so fun she's definitely like the more feisty character who doesn't take people's she punches people out multiple times in this book Which i absolutely love and she's fighting against this need to be subservient and you know act like a servant but also like not taking people's which i loved she definitely had that like gumption and feistiness to her and she was just so awesome but she was also just like a
regular girl who dreamed of going to a ball at the beginning and ends up in this sticky situation another thing i loved about this is that we got a lot More of the side characters including lady bridgerton or violet she plays a lot more of a part in this book especially in like the second half which i loved and we also get to see a lot more of the younger girl siblings in the bridgeton family so we get to see a lot more eloise and i love seeing the dynamic between benedict and eloise because i
think they have a wonderful dynamic in the show so seeing more of that in the books was really great and We also get to hear a lot more from francesca and heis as well they are much older in this book so we get to see them interacting with the other characters and just like hearing more of what they're like so i thought that was interesting they are still slightly interchangeable in my head so i'm hoping the later books will sort of fix that as we get into their stories later on so that's my hope and
then another major thing i wanted to mention is that this Book although the first like couple chapters take place shortly after anthony's story so the vi count who loved me the rest of the book actually takes place three years later so our two main characters sort of faithfully meet one night when she sort of goes to this masquerade ball at the burgerton house and she's sort of disguising herself as this lady and not as a servant and she goes and they find each other and fall for each other but they just have that One night
and she runs off into the night like cinderella and is never to be heard from again and three years past since that first meeting that they have and so they both sort of created this fiction of each other in their heads and fallen in love with each other in their heads which i thought was just so beautiful and poetic and like just hit me in the feels i love stories like that where they like fall in love over a single night or day or whatever And are pining for each other afterwards but the time jump
definitely like surprised me because i felt like i'm curious to see how they're gonna handle it in the show and if they're gonna make it a significant time jump or if they're gonna just put things a lot closer together because i do feel like that also affects the later books because in the next book which i'm currently reading it also is many years later like it's many Years after even this book so there's a lot of time jumps going on and people getting older so i find it really interesting and i'm curious to see how
they're gonna handle it in the show and then finally one thing i really enjoyed about this one is that at the end of this book they really sort of set up the next book which is the one with penelope and colin and we know many things about penelope from the show especially from the first season and so They're sort of like a set up for that next book at the end of this one because there's like a catalyzing moment at the end of this book that changes things for penelope in the next book which i
found super interesting and i loved how it was done i do feel like the author sort of made a more conscious effort to sort of connect the stories together from the second book onwards but just to make it flow a little bit better which i loved so yeah overall love this so much Definitely my fave of the series like i don't think the other ones are gonna top it but we'll see i still have high hopes for eloise's story because i love eloise but i have heard some people were quite disappointed by that one so
we'll see and then the last thing i want to say is that i am so so excited to see who is going to be playing sophie for this book and for like the third season if we get one because i feel like whoever plays it is really going to make or break Sophie's character because she's just so awesome and i just want like the perfect person to play her the perfect person who can like embody her character so i'm really really excited for that and with that said i will check back with you later once
i ever read the next book romancing mr bridgerton alright look for romancing mr bridgerton so this is penelope and colin's story as we know and honestly guys this was a bit of a letdown i had high hopes for the Book that as we know would be lady whistle down's book but i do feel like this fell short for me in a lot of ways mainly in the romance i feel like the book was so focused on the lady whistle-down aspects and sort of penelope as well that the romance was kind of lacking at least in
my opinion i just didn't really love the dynamic between colin and penelope i like that they're old friends and that they've known each other for so long and Then he sort of realizes that he has come to love her but i didn't particularly love him as a character i have always thought that he was a little bit like the dum ja in the show and the earlier books i do love his relationship with his other brothers but i don't think he on his own is that interesting in my opinion at least but it was interesting
to find out that he was a writer and that he had these travel journals that he would write and All that was cool but i just felt like it didn't match up with what we sort of have seen of colin before i didn't really believe that he had this like internal dialogue sort of going on and i particularly didn't love how he was sort of jealous of penelope's success as lady whistled down and how that sort of affected their relationships especially in the second half of the book so all of that just made me not
like him as a character or a love interest and i just Honestly thought that she could do better but overall i think the book did focus a lot on like sort of the whole lady whistle down reveal and everything one thing i didn't really like though was that because the book was so focused on sort of like slightly and slowly parsing out this mystery we didn't really get to connect to penelope fully from the beginning we know something suspicious and we have a suspicion that she might be lady west down and there's This whole challenge
put forth by lady danbury with this reward if someone couldn't uncover lady whistle down but i feel like because it was like a secret from the beginning even to the reader it was slightly frustrating to read from penelope's perspective and not get all the details like everything was just very secretive if that makes sense so obviously i knew that she was lady whistled down from the show because it's revealed in the first season so i knew That going into it and i had a little bit extra context but i feel like i just couldn't connect
to penelope as a character for like most of the first half of the book until it was revealed and until we got more of the backstory of how she started lady whistle down and you know how that all came to be i feel like that part was also like really glossed over i feel like i would have loved like a full-on explanation and more in-depth explanation of how she Became lady whistle down and how all of that came about i feel like that was the most interesting part and the part i was looking forward to
the most and we didn't get much of that and i just didn't really like the dynamics between these two i do like them both in the other books but i feel like on their own i just didn't really love them as much as i was hoping to so i don't know this book was like sort of a miss for me i definitely don't think it was like Horrible or not enjoyable it was still enjoyable it still had fun parts i loved still seeing some of the side characters and stuff i did love like the moments
where colin goes to like daphne for advice and i also really love like the parts between penelope and eloise but one thing that bothered me about that whole situation was that penelope never tells eloise that she's lady whistle down and that eloise doesn't really get a moment at the end of this book to React to the whole reveal that penelope's lady whistled down there's no like moment where she's like oh my god you're my best friend and you didn't tell me this none of that happens and i'm actually reading the next book and it doesn't
occur on that book either which is why i'm like very confused like how could you be best friends for 10 plus years and not even discuss the fact that your Friend has been keeping this like giant secret from you for 10 years i don't know i did find the whole idea of penelope doing this for 10 years and sort of getting tired of it really really interesting i loved that whole look into her secret life and how she had this like burning desire to not let cressida take credit for her work and her life's achievement
that was really cool so i think overall penelope as a character was really cool one thing i Was thinking as i was reading this and sort of thinking back to what i know about season two so i am telling you all this before i've seen season two and one of the trailers or like extra content stuff about season two said that colin is returning from a trip in greece there's like this whole part at the beginning of the book where lady whistleblown thinks that colin is returning from greece and that's what she like puts in
her papers and Everything and that's what everyone thinks but it turns out that he was actually in cyprus and that's where he was and that's where he's returning from at the beginning of this book when he returns and starts to see penelope in a new light and so the fact that there's promotional material floating about that says that he went to greece and that he's back after this long trip has me thinking that potentially they're going to be Moving the story line of this book up earlier into season two or at least part of the
storyline from this book into season two to just add some extra jazz to the story because given that they've revealed penelope's identity at the end of season one to the viewers at least i feel like they're going to continue that threat of sort of figuring out who lady whistled down is and trying to move forward with that storyline i also don't know how many seasons of the show we're Actually gonna get so they might be trying to condense some of the story lines together regardless i think it's gonna be super cool and i'm excited to
see what they're gonna do with colin and penelope just because knowing that they added so much extra for the first season with colin's story i feel like there's a potential for other things to go on in the second season with that said this was by no means my favorite definitely a lower Point in the series for me at least as opposed to the third book which i really loved but i'm still holding out hope that the next one will be better alrighty friends we are on to book five to sir phillip with love and this
is eloise's story and as i mentioned at the beginning of this video i love eloise she's probably my favorite character out of the bridgertons from the show especially and i also loved her in a lot of the Early books but i do feel like she's less of a presence in the books than she is in the show and this book i must say in terms of the romance was quite a bit of a letdown much like romancing mr bridgeton there was something about these books where i feel like the character stuff was good but the
sort of romance itself and the chemistry between characters wasn't really there for me at least but basically with eloise we learned in some of the earlier books That she's been writing these letters and we're like oh what's going on and we find out at the beginning of this book that she's been in correspondence with this man named sir philip crane and it started with her expressing condolences for his late wife marina which this is where i'm coming full circle because i know they said at the beginning of this video i was like i don't know
what they took from later books to bring into earlier seasons of The show and i've realized that marina from season one is one of those characters so marina from the show as we know is the character who is a cousin of the featheringtons and she has a like lover who is in the army she is pregnant and there's a lot of sort of plot lines that go with there but at the end of it we find out that her lover has died and her lover's brother philip comes to marry her and her lover's name was
george i think so marina leaves with him And that's from the end of her story in that first season and i had always thought that she was just like a random addition to the story for season one but it turns out that marina is an actual character in the books from specifically this book so basically in the books marina is once again has his lover in the army named george i don't know if they were like completely lovers but they were engaged and in the book marina is actually a cousin of the bridgertons Not the
featheringtons and george ends up dying in the war and so his brother ends up marrying marina instead and i think in the book there's no mention really of the fact that she's like pregnant before getting married and all that but in the book she and philip end up having twins and they are his kids but this is where things get a little strange and i wasn't actually expecting this but this happens in like the prologue i think of the book but we find Out that marina has been basically depressed her entire life and she ends
up attempting to drown herself in the lake and philip saves her but she ends up dying of the flu afterwards and so there's this very heavy sort of starch to this book which i didn't really expect but this is where always comes in because since marina was her cousin she sends a letter of condolence to phillip because she just likes writing letters to everyone and the two of them end up Sort of striking up this correspondence because he's thinking well he needs a new wife to be a mother to his children who he can't really
manage and things sort of snowball from there sort of the inciting incident for this book in particular like in the current timeline is when sir philip crane sends her a letter and he's like you know we've been talking for a year i think maybe what if you visited me in my home in romney hall for a few weeks we'll see if we suit Each other and then maybe we can get married because i need a wife and you're a spinster and you might want to get married and that kind of thing and so that's what
sort of sparks the beginning of this book and this sort of happens at the same time that alois is sort of reeling from the knowledge that penelope and colin are getting married and that she's going to be a spinster by herself and there's this huge element of eloise feeling like She's been too picky with the suitors that she's turned down for all these years over like the past 10 years which is something i never talked about in my review of romancing mr richardson but it was so wild to me that it takes place so many
years later including this book it takes place many years later after like the first book occurs but yeah there's a huge element of like sort of eloise feeling slightly jealous of penelope having moved on to this new chapter of Her life and she always assumed that she would get married first rather than penelope and that she wouldn't be alone like this which i thought was like an interesting look into eloise's character i think personally i like eloise better in the show after having read this book i like her better in the show i think there's
an element of her being a bit more interesting i guess or a little bit different i would say one thing i really loved about elvis in the first season Was this like moment she has with daphne where she's like totally disgusted by the concept of giving birth and sort of like the pain of it and all that and i could never imagine her having children of her own based off of that conversation and so that is totally shattered in this book because in the epilogue of this book she and philip end up having like their
own natural child aside from the two that he already had with marina and i was like is this Really true to eloise's character i know she's great with kids but i don't know that she would want kids at least in the version of her character i have in my head from the show hello my friends i am just popping in here because i'm editing this video and just realized something of what i was trying to explain with eloise's character i think just based off of what i imagined her in my head and what i've seen
in this show i imagined her to be more like Joe march from little women if you guys know that character from little women she is the type of character who says that she never wants to get married doesn't really want to have kids and she is obsessed with her work and what she's doing and being independent and that is the admirable part of her character and i feel like eloise has sort of always presented that aspect of herself in the show at least like she has so many discussions with penelope about how She's apprehensive and
doesn't want to get married and have this life and be with child and is so mortified by this whole situation of having to go out into society and everything in her next year and i don't know if i would actually enjoy seeing her character change into someone who would want marriage i think that's what sort of disappointed me about this book i expected her to sort of stick to her guns about not wanting marriage or not Wanting you know children that much and just you know sticking to her guns about being a spinster but i
mean i guess it was also realistic that she felt lonely and that she wanted to get married eventually and all these things but i just in my head love independent eloise and just being her awesome self so yeah i think that's what disappointed me about her character and now back to me talking about the rest of my thoughts on this book i think i just had like high Expectations for this book with eloise and sort of a romance as well because the second i heard that it was letters that brings them together i was like
oh this is gonna be so romantic but it ended up being not that romantic i think and the letters parts occurred at the beginning and then they're sort of meeting at romney hall and everything felt just very like here we are you know we both need to get married kind of thing and And that's sort of how it happens another thing that i was like noticing was that this book and basically every book in the series so far has used the same trick every single time where it's like the characters end up in a compromising
position or they end up in a situation where they've been like unsupervised or whatever and they end up having to get married because they've ruined the girl's reputation or are potentially ruining the girls for Reputation the only book that doesn't do that is an offer from a gentleman which is benedict's story which is one of my favorites of the series and i think that was particularly why i liked it so much because it felt a lot different from the other books it had its own gimmicks and it wasn't the same gimmicks as the other books
aside from that one of the highlights of this book was the part where anthony colin benedict and gregory come to sort of save eloise at romney Hall because she sort of run away without telling anyone anything and that whole sequence of scenes where they're there at romney hall and sort of interrogating philip and being slightly mean to him but then later like drinking with him and all their little interactions was really fun i also loved seeing more benedict and sophie in this book who are the main couple in an offer from a gentleman and they
sort of disappear in romancing mr richardson but They come back in this one which was nice another thing i noticed was that i actually really really started to like anthony in this book i was starting to like him more after the my account who loved me but i think i've just come to this acceptance that i like him when he becomes a little bit older like when he was younger in like the first book he was really annoying and even in the first season but i think he's matured a lot which i appreciate and i
think hate Has to do with that so so i absolutely loved seeing him and hearing him talk about his marriage with kate and everything and it was just really great and i love the relationship that he has with all his siblings and the way that he's just like trying to take care of them as the sort of head of the family i did really like sir phil crane's children in this book they were very cute and i love the aspect of eloise sort of connecting with them so i like That part of the story i
just think there is no chemistry between her and sir phillip like i just didn't see it and i wanted more for eloise at least if she was gonna like finally get married i wanted it to be like epic and it wasn't so here we are i still think this was an enjoyable book and i by no means think it was terrible but it definitely wasn't like one of my favorites and with that said that's About all of my thoughts on this book in particular i am going to now wrap up my thoughts on all five
books that i read in the series i plan to continue with the series later on but i do think i need a little break in the series right now because i feel like i've just been reading too many of these like regency romances and i'm starting to get sort of tired of the same things happening i feel like if i come back to the rest of the series later on i'll be a little bit More excited for it probably closer to the next seasons when there's more of those side characters coming in so that said
let's get into ranking these books and sort of giving you my final thoughts alrighty so on to my final thoughts of these like five first books in the bridgerton series and also some of my theories for season two i know this video will probably go up right when season two drops so we'll see if i end up being right about any of these Theories but i did want to start by ranking each of these books in relation to each other based on how i personally enjoyed them so i think in place number four and five
i definitely have to put the last two books that i read romantic mr virgilton and to survival with love so penelope and colin story and eloise's story there's just something about these books where there was a lot of like great moments between some of the characters and like the different Siblings and stuff but i felt like the romances themselves just really fell flat for me and i didn't really get the chemistry between the characters and i just wanted more out of them i also just didn't really like the male characters in these books i didn't
particularly love colin in romancing mr bridgeton i just didn't like how he was getting jealous and i didn't really love sir philip and this one just because he Had like some anger issues and also i didn't love the way that he talked about his relationship with marina i know it was very complicated because he was someone sort of dealing with a sort of spouse who was dealing with a lot of depression and couldn't be there in like a significant way with him but still there's something about the handling of that that i didn't enjoy or
like i feel like these two books also fell flat for me in terms of the way That the main characters were acting or sort of characterized in this book i don't know how to explain this but i feel like i enjoyed penelope and eloise a little bit more on the show and i wish they were a little bit more like themselves in the show but i don't know the romances just didn't do it for me for these two so i feel like that's why they are definitely the last place for me in terms of these
five books surprisingly in the third place i have To put the duke and i although i don't love this one in terms of how repetitive the story gets and also how annoying the characters get towards the end of the book and how sort of sad it is and also like all the problematic that happens in this book to do with the consent and everything but i do think that the romance in this one is a lot better than the later two books just because the chemistry between daphne and simon is like off the charts from
the Beginning i feel like they have really great brands for some really great moments together as well and i just loved reading about them and like wanted to know what was gonna happen next even though i sort of knew it already from the show but i still felt like despite having watched the show and like known how their story ends i still found the book really compelling and interesting to read their story so i did like them each as a character and like the way That they fall in love so i feel like that's like
a really important part for these books and the fact that they are romances so yeah i really really enjoyed these two in this book and sort of their individual character growth as well i will say though that the problematic the repetitiveness and the strange way that this sort of ends off wasn't my favorite so this is like slightly above those other two just because of like the chemistry between the characters but not Far above the other two i do think that the later books do have like better moments between the other siblings and like side
characters so i enjoyed a lot of those aspects which this one doesn't have too much of there's a lot of great moments between daphne and like anthony in this book but aside from that there's not much of like the side characters so take this with a grain of salt in terms of like the romance when i'm saying that it's not that i love what happens Between these characters it's that i like simon as a love interest better and i love their chemistry better like i really did not like colin as a love interest in romancing
mr winterton there was just something about him that i was like i don't find you attractive and i feel like penelope could do better and then sir philip in here i feel like we get a lot of details about him and his backstory dropped in much later in the book but I don't know i didn't find him also attractive as a love interest and i didn't really see what eloise was seeing in him because he was also like kind of a terrible father for most of the book and i know he's trying but i didn't
really empathize with him all that much alright so after i just harped on like those three books now we get into my two favorites of the series and honestly i feel like these two books are Like a cut above the rest they were so much better than the other three and i feel like they felt so much different that like i could believe that they were kind of written by a different person because i don't know what it was about them but the characters i loved each of the love interests and the main characters as
well love them to pieces and i love the way that they fall in love as well i think the stories in these ones were just a lot more Compelling so those two books obviously are the icon who love me and an offer from a gentleman i mentioned in my review of an offer from gentlemen but i really really loved how this one was like sort of a cinderella story and all the conflict that comes between the characters is really sort of a factor of things larger than themselves you know class and society and all of
that i also mentioned this um in my review of to sir philip with love but this is the one Book in the series that doesn't use the gimmick where the two characters are found in a compromising position and so they're forced to get married that happens in every single one of the books except for this one something that happens in most of the other books they get married pretty early in the book and then they're still trying to figure out their feelings afterwards but i feel like this one was definitely like the traditional story of
where the marriage Comes at the very end so i kind of like that just because it didn't feel so similar to the other books and also this one just had like a lot more plot to it and a lot of fun little things going on it also had a lot of the side characters in it which i loved seeing and i just really really loved sophie as a character as well she was such an endearing heroine and i also really loved benedict bendik was like a little bit of an arrogant ass and i do not
Think he's the epitome of like a great guy but he was like a pretty great love interest and i didn't like him as a character he's also really funny i think that's what i liked about him the most out of all of the love interests or like male butcher tins he was the funniest and i just really loved reading about him and sort of seeing him interact with sophie i just loved their banter and everything that they do i think out of all of them the reading experience for Me for this one was just so
enjoyable which is why it like stands above most of the rest of them and then of course we also have the vibe count who loved me this one was equally fantastic i think the only reason that this one gets like a few dot points is because it's very similar to the other ones in the sense that like she uses very similar gimmicks like getting caught in a compromising position and also anthony's stupid anger problems and stuff i think he is a lot Better in this book and i loved getting the insight into his character and
like the grief that he has over his father and i love that he and kate sort of connect over their shared grief as well kate as a character was fantastic and i loved sort of the hate to love trope that was going on in this book like the enemies to lovers situation and i loved like the whole situation with kate sister as well edwina i loved edwina as a character i know they're Planning to play up the love triangle in the second season which is fine but i did personally like the way that edwina was
mostly uninterested in anthony for literally all the book i thought that that was just so fun and i feel like this book was a really nice sort of situation where kate got to take anthony down by a few pegs which was really nice to see after like he's so much of an ass in the first book and season so i'm excited to see that on screen as well i Think the romances in these two books were just so compelling and like the chemistry between characters was just off the charts so they definitely are my favorites
in the series and with that said i feel like those are my like overall thoughts on the books themselves this video is probably going to go up like right before or right after the show comes out and i'll be benching it right away and hopefully giving you guys a review sometime soon but that's about All i have to say this was a really long rambly video where i talked about all my thoughts for these books but i hope you enjoyed it if you have read the books i would love to hear all of your thoughts
if you are just someone who watched the first or second season of the show and wanted to know more about the books and aren't watching this video i would love to know what you're surprised about that i told you about in this video because i feel like this is definitely a lot of Spoilers for the books so i would love to hear what you're sort of feeling and thinking and what you're excited for in future seasons i had so much fun doing this and hopefully i can do a part two of this with the rest
of the series when we get closer to those characters stories in the show as well because i feel like they're very minor characters right now hyacinth francesca gregory because they're all so young but i'm excited to see them grow up and sort of Their stories later on thank you guys so so much for watching i really hope you enjoyed this and if you don't follow me already on instagram twitter goodreads and tick tock definitely go check out those links down below because i usually update you guys on my reading and my regular life on the
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