Have I become obsessed with this series???? YES! I read the first book last year intending to watch the first season straight away, but that didn't happen. My husband and I started it this year and I am hooked. I immediately requested this book from my library after finishing the last episode of season 1. It took me a week to pick it up because I was in the middle of other books I was currently obsessing over.
I was gripped from the very beginning with the prologue. We get to learn about Edmund Bridgerton, the Bridgerton daddy. We learn that he was a very hands on dad with his sons and daughters and it was unheard of. He would get yelled at by the children's nurse and chase them around the yard because it was not propert for a father to play with his children.
With this being Anthony's story, we learn how Edmund dies at 38 years old when Anthony was 18 and how it basically formed his outlook on life and how he was viewed as a rake thanks to Lady Whistledown. How Edmund died made me gasp outloud because this little thing is a symbol for Bridgerton.
Anthony decides to finally settle down and marry and gain an heir before he dies of a young age like his father and uncle. He is so adament that he is going to die young that he refuses to fall in love with his intended bride. He finds out who the diamond of the season is and tries to court her, but he runs into wall after wall named Kate who is Edwina's older sister. These two sisters are coming out at the same time and the Queen has chosen Edwina to be the diamond because she has more beauty than Kate.
Kate doesn't mind, she just wants the best for her sister. With Edwina being the diamond, Anthony tries to get to know her and Kate is not having any of it because she believes Lady Whistledown wholeheartedly about Anthony being a rake. Rake is a lman whore in victorian England.
I enjoyed every minute of my reading and I wanted to tab so many things but it was a library book. I love the foreshadowing and the clues to who liked who. Especially with the 3rd season coming to Netflix next week, and it being about Colin and Penelope, I screamed when the first Pall Mall game was being played and Colin picked the YELLOW mallet. YELLOW= PENELOPE!!!!!! Like WHAT!!!!
I am going to try to get to the third book soon because that is Benedict's story and I honestly LOVE Benedict in the show. I am hoping that they go with a gay storyline for him because honestly... how could you not.
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