When a bee sting kills his father instantly, Anthony, 18 years of age at the time, is left devestated and utterly convinced that he cannot ever think to surpass his father in any way, including age. The Bridgerton children don’t hide in the nursery until they come of age they are part of the family from the beginning, and as the eldest, Anthony enjoyed a marvelous relationship with his mother, and his father. The Bridgertons enjoyed an abnormal-for-the-time family relationship, with all the children in the household seen, heard, and spoken with by their parents at all times. Daphne, being a girl, would marry before her older brothers, if one follows the standard age timeline of the Regency period, where debs marry titled gentlemen 10 or so years their senior, so it makes perfect sense that Daphne is first, then Anthony.Īnthony assumed the title upon the sudden death of his father, whom he adored. It’s the second in the Bridgerton series, after The Duke and I, which is probably my favorite Quinn and is the story of Anthony’s younger sister Daphne.

The Viscount Who Loved Me is the story of Anthony Bridgerton, the Viscount of the title, and Kate Sheffield. So pass me a Bridgerton cupcake, and let’s look at the last one I reread. Quinn novels for me are like comforting stories I’ve read a million times and liked, but I go in knowing that the comforting elements will be redealt into original patterns that I haven’t seen before. She’s even delved in other novels into rewriting fairy tale stories in Regency settings, and used little-seen plot devices, like impoverished noblemen looking to marry American heiresses.

Quinn seems to sit with a deck of “character cliche” cards and plays with scenes so she can turn each one on its ear. Quinn’s books, particularly the early Bridgertons, are light, funny, friendly books, with interesting characters facing unique situations, and story lines that come close to falling onto established cliches then yank backwards into originality. They’re the romance equivalent of chocolate chip cookies, chicken soup, macaroni and cheese, cupcakes – comfort foods of which I haven’t met a single example that I would turn down.

In fact, I suspect that much of the reason I kept them in the first place is that I often buy Robert’s books (because you know she needs the royalties, NOT) and I feel so bad about spending $7.00 or more on a freaking paperback that I figure I ought to keep it – almost like wearing a shirt you paid too much for as often as you can to “get your money’s worth.” There are a few Roberts novels I go back and reread.īut the Julia Quinns? I reread them all the freaking time. I did toss half the Roberts because I never go back and reread them. Among the keepers I couldn’t part with when it was time to Thin the Collection of Dusty Romances Prior to Moving were most of my Julia Quinn novels, and many of the Nora Roberts’.

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