Hello Everyone!!
I have read officially read my first book of 2021!!
YAY!! This is a huge accomplishment for me! Being a new mom, does not give me a lot of me-time, but I have an amazing husband who allows me some time for myself every so often, so I have been using bath-time to get some reading in.
By the way, before I get into my review, I found this really awesome feature through the Kindle App on my phone! I'm sure most people have figured this out, but I found it really neat! So I bought the first six Bridgerton through Books-A-Million.com. However, I'm going to just say it, they are awful with their customer service, sending books, etc. The only reason I ended up buying through them this time around is because the Bridgerton novels were buy 2 get 1 free, and they were supposed to be in stock. This is actually the second time I've had issues with them, the first time was when I preordered Midnight Sun last, which was signed copy. I preordered it when it was announced, over two months in advance, and I ended up getting it almost three weeks after its release date. I was not happy. This time around, out of the six books, which I ordered in mid-January I have so far received three out of the six. They actually didn't have any in stock, and they were all back-ordered after I ordered them. Their customer service does not respond, and in the past when I called them, the person I spoke to was actually pretty rude.
But anyway, I ended up buying the first book also through the Kindle app, and as I was buying it, I was able to add the audiobook, for an additional $7. It was a good deal, given that audiobooks are usually very expensive. Well anyway, before I went on my rant about BAM, what I was trying to say was the feature on the kindle app, that allows you to listen to the audiobook as you go along. So if you're physically reading the book, Audible will follow along as you're reading. It was very convenient because I had to drive to an appointment by myself that was 45 minutes away, and listening to the book kept me company. And then as I waited in the car for my appointment to begin, I could just pick up reading the book myself. Which was very convenient, because it was during a very risqué scene 😉.
Anyway on to the review:
From Goodreads:
The Duke and I is a romance set in the Regency era.
In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince-- while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable...but not too amiable.
Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to pay the romantic games that captivate gentlemen.
Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society-- just as his callous father shunned Simon throughout his painful childhood. Yet an encounter with his best friend's sister offers another option. If Daphne agrees to a fake courtship, Simone can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, will see her prospects and her reputation soar.
The plan works like a charm--at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London's elite, there is only certainty: love ignores every rule...
My Review of the book:
So maybe it's because I saw the show before I read the book, but as I was reading the book, I imagined Regé-Jean Page as Simon and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne. As well, as all the other characters, even though they didn't have as much of a role in this book as in the show. I enjoyed it, but again, probably because I saw the show first, I had this whole image of what happened in the show in my head, but I liked certain characters more as they were represented in the show, than in the book. So Simon and Daphne were good, because they were the main characters of the book, so you get a lot of them. However, the little bits of Daphne's mom you get in the book, I must say I liked her character more in the show. Daphne's mom came off as much more personable towards her children in the show, versus the book. In the book she's more interested in making sure her daughter finds a suitable match, versus finding love. Maybe it was just me, but she came off more as Lady Featherington.
Overall, though I did enjoy the book. It was cute, sexy, and romantic.
I am really excited to read the next ones though, since I'll have to wait for Season 2, along with everyone else. This allows me to find out what happens next!
I am kind of bummed though, because my kindle edition came with a second epilogue, and it contained a major spoiler about another Bridgerton! Kind of a bummer to find out before I actually got to read the next few books.
My Review of the Audiobook:
So while the audiobook was very convenient for while I was driving alone, the narrator was all wrong for me, after seeing the show. Now I know the audiobook has been around much longer than the Netflix show, but it kind of killed it hearing a voice like Lady Whistledown the entire time reading the voice of Simon, and worse...the you-know-what scenes.
Julie Andrews is not the narrator of the audiobook, but a some-what similar voice, if that makes sense?
So overall rating:
I enjoyed it, and I'm definitely looking forward to reading the other books in the series!
The Romance Bookie :)
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