Finally picked up the fourth book and sadly it was a 3 star. It took me two weeks to read. I admit that the holidays, school and work got in the way, but also I was just not invested in this installment. I love Penelope and she is one of my favorite characters. Colin is my least favorite Bridgerton sibling and he was so selfish, pouty and narcissistic at times.
Book Penelope is so different from show Penelope, honestly all of them are different, but book Penelope is plain and dry and kind of boring. She is a spinster at 28 and finally off the marriage mart. She is now a chaperone for her younger sister Felicity who is having her first season. All of the ton are bored with this year's prospects and are getting bored. Lady Whistledown has been writing for ten years, and Lady Danbury, whom I adore, she decides to make a contest. 1,000 pounds to whoever can uncover the identity of Lady Whistledown.
Penelope decides to go into retirement as Lady Whistledown and she is followed for the first time in 10 years by no one other than Colin. Colin is appaled that she has traveled by herself to London and a shady part at that and then is flabbergasted that she is Lady Whistledown.
He then takes her to her mothers house where she was supposed to be, and on the way they get intimate and handsy. He then decides to propose marriage and the whole time he is trying to tell her mother, her mom and sisters are trying to get Penelope to leave the room because they think Colin is there for Felicity, because who honestly wants Penelope. RUDE!!!!
At a ball, Cressida comes out and says that she is Lady Whistledown and demands the 1000 pounds from Lady Danbury. Penelope is so over Cressida's shit that she decides to write one more column to denounce Cressida. The column gets delivered at their engagment party and Colin is furious.
Colin is also jealous of Penelope because she could write and did it so well for 10 years and the poor man child has no purpose. She calls him on his bullshit and says that since he is a man, he has so many doors open to him and he has the nerve to scoff at her.
They get married and then Cressida pays Penelope a visit. Cressida knows that she is Lady Whistledown and wants to blackmail her for 10000 pounds. She gives Penelope two days to come up with the money. Colin then tells Anthony and Simon that Penelope is Lady Whistledown and makes an announcement at Daphne's ball. Penelope is not ruined especially when the first person to clap and acknowledge her is none other than Lady Danbury who knew all along.
The ending and 2nd epilogue wasn't very good. The whole book was a back and forth of who was jealous and mad at who and why they weren't noticeable and who was a wallflower. Eloise gets married to Sir Phillip.
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