The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the tomboyish Billie ran wild with Edward and Andrew. Sometimes you find love in the most unexpected of places…Įveryone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. Just don’t expect anything terribly new or different. If you like the other Bridgerton books, you will probably like this one just fine. The matriarch of the family is delightful, as is the opening sequence on a house roof (it involves an evil cat). I was not fond of the hero, who is slightly jealous and overbearing, but for the most part I enjoyed his conversations with Billie. It’s a perfectly solid, if rather bland book that will appeal to readers who prefer drawing room romances to romances with a lot of intrigue or action. It seems churlish to say, “Well, I like what the author does but she’s done it so many times that I’m bored,” but this was my experience. That’s the whole plot – there’s a croquet game, which is delightful of course, and a subplot about George’s missing brother that fizzles out just as it become interesting. Naturally they are thrown into close proximity and fall madly in love. George finds Billie to be too outrageous, and Billie thinks George is too prudish. Billie (Sybilla) Bridgerton has always been a tomboy who gets along great with all of neighboring children, with the exception of George, the oldest brother in the Rokesby family.
The book is set in an earlier time than the other Bridgerton books (1779). Neither as madcap as What Happens in London nor as angsty as Sum of All Kisses, it fits neatly in the middle of the Quinn highway. They are good, solid, predictable comfort reads.īecause of Miss Bridgerton fits squarely into the “solid but already written many times” category of Julia Quinn books.
But most are pleasant and enjoyable and soothing. Some contain huge missteps (What the hell is going on in The Duke and I?). Some Julia Quinn novels go the extra mile (I adored The Sum of All Kisses, and What Happens in London is one of my favorite books of all time). The best thing and the worst thing about a Julia Quinn novel is that you know almost exactly what you are going to get – an enjoyable, light, funny Regency romance.
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