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Title: To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn ISBN: 0-380-82085-4 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (75 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Moving tale, not as funny as the other Bridgerton tales
Comment: Eloise Bridgerton and Sir Philip Crane have been corresponding for over a year. Sir Philip asks Eloise to come for a visit to see if they will suit each other enough to marry. Eloise agrees to this but does not tell her family, nor does she write Sir Philip to say when she will be arriving. Thus the first encounter is less than encouraging. He is expecting a homely spinster, which Eloise certainly is not. She is expecting someone much more charming and affable.
Eloise is a great heroine. She has an irrepressible spirit and speaks her mind frequently. Sir Philip is less likable as a hero, but Quinn does a great job of explaining why Philip acts inappropriately. Since much of the story is from Philip's point of view, instead of seeing him as a jerk, the reader will feel compassion for this awkward and somewhat shy man. I truly loved Philip, he was uncertain and insecure, and easily made happy. I just didn't know why Eloise would love him.
While this is certainly a love story, the main focus is the relationship between Philip and his children. Philip is a distant father because of his fear of becoming like his own father. His awkwardness with his children is heartbreaking, frustrating, and endearing at the same time. However, due to the focus with Philip coming to terms with dealing with his own childhood, as well as dealing with the death of his wife, this story is sweet and amusing, but not hysterically funny, as the rest of the Bridgerton series has been. There is one great scene halfway through the book when Eloise's brothers arrive that is laugh out loud funny, but it is too short by far. Still a worthy buy, but different from her usual books.
Rating: 3
Summary: The next Bridgerton book?
Comment: I also purchased this book as soon as it hit the shelves. However, after the first couple pages, I stopped and re-read the ending of Colin's story to see if I had forgotten the part about Francesca. Francesca was widowed? Who did she marry? I was sure Julia Quinn must have written a book in between that I missed. I alway have to read series book in their proper order or it drives me crazy! Well there was no book, so I started "To Sir Phillip, With Love" again, hoping that at some point I'd find out what happened to Francesca.
My next disappointment was Phillip. To me, Phillip just did not come across as the type of man that should have been paired with such a strong-willed, independent character as Eloise. There also was not enough envolvement with the other Bridgerton family members.
Even though the overall story was good, it just wasn't the high quality you normally receive from Julia Quinn's books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent, Eloise, Excellent!
Comment: Perhaps, my second favorite Julia Quinn heroine, next to Penelope Featherington, is her best friend, Eloise Bridgerton. In "Romancing Mr. Bridgerton," Eloise realized that after Penelope and Colin got married, she won't have her former spinster friend with her anymore to enjoy "blessed singlehood." In the next Bridgerton installment, "To Sir Phillip, With Love" we discover who Eloise has been corresponding with -the husband of their late cousin. It started when Eloise wrote a sympathy letter to Sir Phillip when she heard their cousin died. Then, Sir Phillip responded, until their correspondences developed into friendship, which led Sir Phillip to propose to Eloise!
Sir Phillip proposed to Eloise thinking that she was the typical spinster and so conveniently solving his problems in finding a "permanent" governess for his two children and a companion who will be there but not distract him from his first love: botany. He did not expect Eloise to really respond immediately; he did not even expect Eloise to arrive in his doorstep. Sir Phillip was not only shocked to find Eloise unannounced in his home but she was not his picture of a homely spinster, Eloise was beautiful, smart, tough, and talks to distraction. His first reaction was to shut her up with a deep, passionate kiss.
I can't wait to read this follow up to "Romancing Mr. Bridgerton" and I was not disappointed. There were some dark moments there in the book but Eloise is such a strong and positive heroine, she shines through most of those moments. Plus, the appearance of the gorgeous Bridgerton brothers to "rescue" Eloise should not be missed.
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Title: Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn ISBN: 0380820846 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Lady Chosen by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0060002069 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Gentleman's Honor by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0060002077 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn ISBN: 0380815575 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown by Julia Quinn, Suzanne Enoch, Karen Hawkins, Mia Ryan ISBN: 0060511508 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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