Title: To Sir Phillip, With Love
Series: Bridgertons
Author: Julia Quinn
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: January 31, 2017
Publisher: Avon
ASIN: B00U6SFUVK
She wrote him a letter...and he stole her heart.
Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except...she wasn't. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth, all he wanted to do was kiss her...and more.
Did he think she was mad? Eloise Bridgerton couldn't marry a man she had never met! But then she started thinking...and wondering...and before she knew it, she was in a hired carriage in the middle of the night, on her way to meet the man she hoped might be her perfect match. Except...he wasn't. Her perfect husband wouldn't be so moody and ill-mannered, and while Phillip was certainly handsome, he was a large brute of a man, rough and rugged, and totally unlike the London gentlemen vying for her hand. But when he smiled...and when he kissed her...the rest of the world simply fell away, and she couldn't help but wonder...could this imperfect man be perfect for her?
My rating:
After her best friend, Penelope, whom she hoped to spend the rest of her life with joined, blissful spinsterhood, gets hitched to Eloise's brother Colin, Eloise find herself unmoored. Alone in the midst of her happily married and happily in love siblings, thinking that maybe, just maybe, she'd made a mistake in not accepting any of the offers of marriage.
But she has a backup plan. Her pen pal, Sir Phillip Crane, widowed husband of her distant cousin Marina. She'd written him a year prior to offer her condolences and they started corresponding, until he offered marriage in his last letter. That option is starting to look rather appealing now. So, in the middle of a ball, Eloise sneaks out and travels to Phillip to see if they would suit.
But the man is nothing like she imagined, his household is nothing like she imagined, and his two children are hellions...But still, there's something about the family that draws her in.
Yet another quick, rather funny (especially the male bonding scenes) read, but yet again severely lacking in the romance department. Sure, the two protagonists had a few rather hot scenes together, but passion is not romance. And what was supposed to be romance, seemed more like "settling".
It happened too fast, under duress (when the four Bridgerton brothers rode to the rescue), and both Phillip and Eloise had ulterior motives to get hitched in the first place. He to find a mother for his children, someone who would get them off his hands and make them behave, and she for not wanting to be left out and alone.
Which never bodes well.
I missed the rest of the Bridgerton family to bring some more humor and real affection into the story.
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