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A review by solaris_zip
Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
3.5
1824, friends to lovers. Penelope and Colin love story is something so simple yet so heartwarming. Because it something that many people could relate to. Having a childhood friend, knowing someone for so long, being used to be around them to care for them.. and then one day everything changes. You start to properly look at them. Noticing the way their eyes aren’t just brown, but a softer shade of brown with a gold ring around. You will start noticing how perhaps their lips look perfectly kissable. You will start to wonder, “what is this feeling? Why am I blushing like a madman?” Truth is, Penelope and Colin love story is sweet, is giddy. I like to say Penelope manifested everything. Manifesting queen 1824.
Either way, I enjoyed the book. I love those two and the book is now one of my favourites from the bridgerton universe. However, there are a few things that I didn’t particularly like. For example, the way Colin would snap or just be rude, very rude, to Penelope and never fully apologising to her. Never being on his damn knees apologising, begging her to take him back. Especially after the whole “I will never marry Penelope” thing in the prologue, years went by and he even acknowledged… he never apologised for it. And that really icked me.
Another thing is the way Penelope is written.
Either way, I enjoyed the book. I love those two and the book is now one of my favourites from the bridgerton universe. However, there are a few things that I didn’t particularly like. For example, the way Colin would snap or just be rude, very rude, to Penelope and never fully apologising to her. Never being on his damn knees apologising, begging her to take him back. Especially after the whole “I will never marry Penelope” thing in the prologue, years went by and he even acknowledged… he never apologised for it. And that really icked me.
Another thing is the way Penelope is written.
Throughout the book we see her trying to fight for her voice. There were instances were she really pushed through, she was standing her ground and we like that! But, two pages later the author went back to write her as little lost girl Penelope. And I think that's really not fair. She should have had her big glow up, personality wise. There were so many scenes with Colin where I just wished she just snapped at him.
Infuse some common sense into him. And yet she didn't. She took it all. And sometimes I dare say let him walk over her, and I didn't like that.
Book wise they are a better couple than Kate and Anthony (come for me I dare you). In the show, I hope we will see a Colin who will jealous.
Desperate. So damn desperate to be with Penelope, I want to see Colin so down bad, that I have to stop the show out of secondhand embarrassment for him. I want to see him distraught at the thought of her marrying someone else. I want ANGST. I want him BEGGING, for her to get married with him. For her to reject him. Or to at least make him work for it. I don't need something "easy" like in the book. Where after the carriage scene he just slips in the proposal and that was it.