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This was very smouldery but I am being picky

When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons #6) by Julia Quinn

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So, this one was kind of weird! 3.5 stars, I’ll say, from the exact average of the first (great) half and the second (weird) half. Spoilers. But first, Goodreads summary: “In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one’s life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to […]

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9/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

A shipboard romance that could have been better

The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

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Oh, I have loved many of Julia Quinn’s books, and adored the Bridgerton saga but I have to say it’s time to let go of that family.  This is the third book in the Rokesby’s series, and much like the first two, this one just didn’t do it for me.  I guess I was hoping that this one was better!  Poppy Bridgerton is the heroine of this one, and is a typical spunky gal who hasn’t been courted and has no marriage prospects despite being pretty and sweet.  While she’s visiting a friend along the coast, she stumbles across a […]

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2/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

About the reaction you would accept from a book with a character who is simply the other one in the title

The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

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I love Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series, and have also mostly enjoyed the spin offs even if they are comparatively unmemorable when put against the original series, so this was a pre-order for me.  And it’s not that this one was bad, I liked Andrew, and Poppy was nice, but there wasn’t much spark for me on this one. I actually thought it was me and that I was in a reading slump (which I think I kind of am), but when I asked about it elsewhere, Malin assured me that she was struggling to maintain her interest in this one […]

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12/31/2018 's CBR10 Review No:192 |

Ending the year on a rather mediocre note

The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

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Miss Poppy Bridgerton is visiting a cousin at the coast when she stumbles upon a strange cave, which happens to be full of smugglers’ goods. When she’s shortly after discovered by two of the smugglers, she finds herself drugged and abducted onto a ship, where the very handsome captain tells her that she can’t be released until after the ship has been to Portugal and back. Poppy is none too happy about this, obviously, but doesn’t really have a choice. She just has to hope that her reputation isn’t completely in tatters by the time she returns. While he has […]

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12/27/2018 's CBR10 Review No:108 |

While he was sleeping.

The Girl With the Make-Believe Husband (Rokesbys, #2) by Julia Quinn

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Short and sweet review for a short and sweet book. Actually, the book was 375 pages which isn’t really short, but it FELT short because I zoomed right through it. I’m not taking back my phrasing. So this is a book about a lady who travels to Revolutionary America to search for her missing brother (a British soldier), and encounters his best friend instead, who is in a coma. When they won’t let her in to see him, she claims to be his wife, and then nurses him back to health. When he wakes up, he has no memory of the […]

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1/29/2018 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

A series of lies

The Girl with the Make Believe Husband by Julia Quinn

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This is book two in the Rokesby series, set before the infamous Bridgerton bunch series, of which I’ve read all.  However, I’m not as taken with this series as I’d hoped to be.  The first book was okay, and this one had a lot of problematic plot devices.  To begin with, Cecilia Harcourt makes an impetuous journey from England to America to care for her brother Thomas, a soldier in the army.  He’s gone missing, however, but she feels like it would be an easy task to find him.  Instead, she finds his friend Edward Rokesby – unconscious and needing […]

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10/13/2017 's CBR9 Review No:79 |

Goodbye, Bridgertons, I hardly knew ye.

On the Way to the Wedding (Bridgertons, #8) by Julia Quinn

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This book was a bit of a mixed bag for me, which is sad since it’s the last Bridgerton book, and I would have liked the series to go out on more of bang rather than a whimper*. And I really genuinely enjoyed the first half of the book. It was fun and bantery, and I liked that neither our hero nor heroine were really very self aware, and thus instalove was avoided. But the second half lost its way. *I would also rather it wasn’t the pinkest shade of book to ever exist this side of cotton candy. Gregory […]

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9/14/2017 's CBR9 Review No:80 |

Cannonballing with Julia Quinn.

When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons, #6) by Julia Quinn

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I tried real hard for my Cannonball to be with, like, a super cool book that I lost my mind over, but I guess I’ll just have to settle for an ordinary one that I just plain old enjoyed. It did make me swoon a little, so that’s something at least. Maybe it’s just because I’m a sucker for a good love story with pining, but I really liked this Bridgerton book, maybe more than most people seem to have done. This is Francesca’s book, and she is already married at the beginning of the book, a situation which soon […]

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8/1/2017 's CBR9 Review No:52 |


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