this will actually be a full review, because I have some thoughts so get ready suckers*


I have some mixed feelings about this book overall. The banter and wittiness of these characters kept me entertained, but not enough to get me to care? If that makes any sense.


This book didn’t really have a plot is what I’m trying to say. We get 100 pages of not really pining, and then 100 pages of a carriage ride, and then about 100 pages of Georgie being bored in a house. There just wasn’t enough for this to fall back on, when the banter failed.


I feel weird reading this book in the first place because I didn’t know any of these characters. I’ve always been reluctant to read the Bridgertons series (because of that one rape/very dubious consent scene at the end of The Duke and I) and even the prequels, mainly because I haven’t always heard the best things.


And while my points above do stand clear, I did still enjoy this. It was really fluffy. Nicholas is adorable, and so is Georgie. Their romance is, like I said, fluffy. They work so well together, and it was really interesting to see the way the both connected through their mutual interest in medicine and science.


This book also has a lot of underlying feminist themes, which was an interesting (and great) choice on Julia Quinn’s part. This book takes place in the late 18th century, and it was throughly enjoyable to see a female of this time period be girly, but also like the things that only men were supposed to like.


Also, just putting this out there, that this book had top tier smut. I mean it was just, Hot. Our hero is actually a virgin, and it was so hot seeing him talk dirty yet be so inexperienced towards Georgie. I was like: