Title: The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After
Series: Bridgertons
Author: Julia Quinn
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: April 2, 2013
Publisher: Avon
ASIN: B00A6DHKDQ
Once upon a Regency time, an author created a family...
But not just any family. Eight brothers and sisters, assorted in-laws, sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, (not to mention an overweight corgi), plus an irrepressible matriarch who's a match for any of them...These are the Bridgertons. Through eight bestselling novels, readers laughed, cried, and fell in love.But they wanted more.
And so the readers asked the author...
What happened next? Does Simon ever read his father's letters? Do Francesca and Michael become parents? Who would win in a Pall Mall grudge match?
Does 'The End' really have to be the end?
This is a collection of Julia Quinn's funny, heart-warming 'second epilogues,' which are included at the ends of each novel. This collection also includes plus a brand new novella about none other than the wise and witty matriarch: Violet Bridgerton herself. So get to know the Bridgertons all over again—because Happily Ever After is a whole lot of fun...
My rating:
In order to avoid possible spoilers, I decided not to read the second epilogues after each Bridgerton book, choosing to wait until the end. And having read the series back to back, there was no fear of possibly forgetting just what each story was about.
It was a hit-and-miss collection, to be honest, some stories funny, some lovely codas, and some utterly necessary, but that's life.
It was nice seeing Daphne and Simon receiving a so-called late-in-life surprise, though the letters were a bit of a let-down, and while Kate and Anthony delivered on the hoots (and cuteness), I couldn't care less about happened to Posy.
Then there was the anticlimactic tale of how Eloise finds out Penelope's big secret, then I didn't give a fart about Amanda Crane, and then came the sweetest of them all, about Francesca and Michael's wish coming true.
Yet more meh-ness with the finding of the diamonds, major drama and fright involving Lucy and Gregory's number eight and nine...And then Violet's story that was also a bit of a let down. I wanted the woman to get a romantic ending as well, not just a happy one.
But, as in life, we cannot have everything, but still, I expected more.
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