nila's Reviews (526)

Quite different from the TV series, for better and for worse. I thought it was just fine, I didn't have such high expectations either. I really liked the Bridgerton family dynamic, and the relationships between all the different siblings. I was surprised at the lack of secondary storylines besides the main one concerning Simon and Daphne, but I kinda liked that too. 

Not my favorite, feel like I've sorta fallen out of the story, and it's become too elaborate, but I still love the banter between the guys 

Time travel in romance stories is one of my least favorite tropes. I never like how it changes the power dynamics and and how one of the characters get complete control over the other, reliving the tile period with knowledge about the second person, which they don't even remember sharing. But Reynolds managed to avoid that trap, and the book was instead a sweet, funny and sad story about friendship, found family and all kinds of love. 

This was a challenging read, it contained more about trading politics and other business talk than I was expecting, but I still ended up enjoying it immensely. 

A WARNING - if you don't like the miscommunication trope (I mean - who does?) this book is not for you. Because the romance in this book, which is the reason I wanted to read it, is plagued by that trope, almost until the very end. There were fewer interactions between the two main characters, and so at times I struggled to actually want to read the book. But when it was good, it was really good. 

The book is, as expected, deeply coloured by when it was published - thoughts expressed about people from different classes and other ethnicities are full of xenophobia and makes the book, at times, very uncomfortable to read. There are also allusions to the cotton industry, union workers' rights etc.