Title: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

Author: Julia Quinn

Genre: Historical Romance

Publisher: Piatkus

Page Count: 384

ISBN: 0349429456

Goodreads Rating: 4.08

Everyone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London. Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for...well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret...and fears she doesn't know him at all. Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of everyone's preoccupation with the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can't seem to publish an edition without mentioning him in the first paragraph. But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad he discovers nothing in his life is quite the same - especially Penelope Featherington! The girl haunting his dreams. But when he discovers that Penelope has secrets of her own, this elusive bachelor must decide...is she his biggest threat - or his promise of a happy ending?

So if you’ve been a regular visitor on my blog lately, you’d know that I have caught the Bridgerton bug. After reading book one, The Duke and I, I started watching the Netflix show and since then I watched the show multiple times already and I’ve been reading the books. And I just can’t get enough! So I was super excited to start reading Colin and Penelope’s story.

In ‘Romancing Mr. Bridgerton’ we finally get to read the story of Colin and Penelope. Penelope is now officially a spinster. After being still unmarried at twenty eight, Penelope is definitely a proven wallflower. And she has loved being able to have a little more freedom now the people around her seem to have given up on finding her a husband. Penelope has loved Colin for years, but he has always just been her best friends brother. But somehow now Colin starts to see Penelope in another light than before.. and he starts wondering how he has not been able to see how amazing she is.

I definitely enjoyed reading this book from the very first page. Above all I was so curious about Colin and Penelope’s story. But although I definitely enjoyed it, this wasn’t my favorite book in the series so far. It was fun, but it couldn’t keep my interest as much as I hoped.

Even though I’ve been super curious about their story, I just didn’t find their chemistry as fun and exciting as the chemistry between the characters in the previous books. But this book did give us some exciting insights in some of the secrets Julia Quinn has told us throughout the series. And I did enjoy finding out more about Colin and Penelope.

The best part about this book was definitely getting to know Colin and Penelope’s story and reading more about the other Bridgerton characters. And even if this book wasn’t my favorite.. I can’t wait to read the next book.

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Check out my review of the first three books in the Bridgerton series here:

#1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn loves to dispel the myth that smart women don’t read (or write) romance, and and if you watch reruns of the game show The Weakest Link you might just catch her winning the $79,000 jackpot. She displayed a decided lack of knowledge about baseball, country music, and plush toys, but she is proud to say that she aced all things British and literary, answered all of her history and geography questions correctly, and knew that there was a Da Vinci long before there was a code. A graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, Ms. Quinn is one of only sixteen members of Romance Writers of America’s Hall of Fame. Her books have been translated into 32 languages, and she lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest. The Bridgertons, her popular series of historical romance, is currently in production by Shondaland as a Netflix original series starring Julie Andrews, Phoebe Dynevor, and Rége-Jean Page. Website | Facebook | Instagram | Bookbub

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Maureen Bakker

Maureen is a mom, wife, nurse, and Ravenclaw living in the Netherlands. She spends her days juggling mom-life, reading, blogging, planning date nights with her husband and working as a nurse. Maureen also is a big Anglophile, loves cooking, Gilmore Girls, Bridgerton and Harry Potter.. Always!  Facebook | Instagram