Julia Quinn

A New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington, in the fourth of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. COLIN AND PENELOPE’S STORY 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 of as nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can’t seem to publish an edition without mentioning him. 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 who was always simply there is suddenly the girl haunting his dreams. 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?

Bridgerton

Romancing Mister Bridgerton

Tali ♥️

And he was learning that everything he thought he’d known about kissing was rubbish. 

Everything else had been mere lips and tongue and softly murmured but meaningless words. 

Ximena Cespedes

She was a siren, a goddess, and he wondered how on earth no one had ever noticed this before.

Annika

And then there was the scariest prospect of all: what if his writing was published but no one liked it?

Did words have meaning if they were never heard?

I don’t know. I don’t know when, I don’t know how, and to be honest, I don’t care. But I know this much is true: I love you, and I hate myself for not seeing the real you all these years.

Maybe this, then, was the definition of love. When you wanted someone, needed her, adored her still, even when you were utterly furious and quite ready to tie her to the bed, just to keep her from going out and making more trouble.

His love hadn’t been a thunderbolt from the sky. It had started with a smile, a word, a teasing glance. Every second he had spent in her presence it had grown, until he’d reached this moment, and he suddenly knew. He loved her.

He assumed he say something flip and droll, like the devil-may-care fellow he was reputed to be. Anything for you, perhaps, or maybe, every woman deserves at least one kiss. But as he  closed the bare distance between them, he realized that there were no words that could capture the intensity of the moment. No words for the passion. No words for the need. No words for the sheer epiphany of the moment.

valentina

Scarlett

Volver a leer este libro fue la mejor decisión que tome este mes, al principio no me había gustado nada y era aburrido 
Muy equivocada estaba porque este libro es tan bueno como los anteriores y Penelope es una de las mejores protagonistas de la saga
Colin mi solecito

Angeli

I think this is, by far, my favorite one in the Bridgerton series.

Engeland, 19e eeuw. De jonge Penelope Featherington is verliefd op graaf Colin Bridgerton, de vriend van haar broer, maar die heeft dat niet in de gaten omdat hij heeft het te druk met het weerleggen van de aantijgingen van een columniste die hem een slechte reputatie bezorgen.

Inspiration for the Netflix Original Series Bridgerton: Penelope and Colin's Story

Romancing Mr Bridgerton

Started reading to I could finish before I finished the Netflix season, and it was fantastic. Kicking my feet giddy reading some portions. Polin was definitely such a good match! A little different from the show but I always side with the books. 

Estelle Fernandez 

This one is definitely my favorite so far!❤️

Salomé Gleusteen 

Cici Pearson

It was a little repetitive the plot between Lady Whistledown and Colin complaining and being furious with Penelope -which I understand- but it’s the main thing that he does in the whole book since he founds out and I was hoping to something more about him :(

It’s easy and fast to read and I really liked the relationship between Colin and Penelope, I liked that it’s not insta love and to see the evolution in him

I loveeeeeeed the part where everyone finds out who Lady Whistledown is and Colin’s speech 💕

Sonia

It was a little repetitive the plot between Lady Whistledown and Colin complaining and being furious with Penelope -which I understand- but it’s the main thing that he does in the whole book since he founds out and I was hoping to something more about him :(

It’s easy and fast to read and I really liked the relationship between Colin and Penelope, I liked that it’s not insta love and to see the evolution in him

I loveeeeeeed the part where everyone finds out who Lady Whistledown is and Colin’s speech 💕

Marcy Pursell 

** spoiler alert **
           I thought there would be more drama to Colin and Penelope's story, but overall I quite liked it, even if it moved quickly.

Allie Johnson

i love how u get to know more abt pen and colin and how intrinsic their characters are

deche

On the sixth of April, in the year 1812 - precisely two days before her sixteenth birthday - Penelope Featherington fell in love. But Colin Bridgerton certainly didn't fall in love with her in 1812 (and not in 1813, 1814, 1815, or - oh blast, not in all the years 1816-1822, either, and certainly not in 1823, when he was out of the country the whole time, anyway..' Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother forwell, 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 secretand fears she doesn't know him at all. Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as 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 abroard 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 decideis she his biggest threat - or his promise of a happy ending?

Romancing Mr. Bridgerton

Mirza Alejandra

Colin is such a man child I really need to know what they’re gonna do with him on the TV show to fix that. 

Penelope is so great, I love her. I’m kinda sad she retired tho, that was easily my favorite part of the books.

yaya

i love you penelope 🫶🫶🫶🫶 … colin… literally gtfo

Bailey Johnson

think Benedict’s book is my favorite still but this one was good. love triangle between Colin, Penelope, and food

Katherine Alsup

I was so excited for this book but it was such a let down.

Winona 

Omg the writing is fucking horrible, but I still find this so fun. Shame on me.

This is just like eating fast food - cheesy, sloppy, greasy, but somehow just so darn delicious. I've not read any of the other Bridgerton books, and frankly I don't care for them, but Polin?! Oh I  love  them so freaking much. They're the only characters in the show that I like (Nicola Coughlan, I will fight to the death for you), and I love them even more in the books. Their dynamic is sweet, charming, and sincere. I love that they have history that is awkward and complicated, but it makes both of their feelings feel genuine instead of instalove or just pure sexual attraction. 

There are things I don't like, though. 
1. Why is Penelope suddenly not fat? I don't like that!
2. I don't like that book!Colin didn't even know the colour of Penelope's eyes in the TWELVE years he's known her. I don't understand the choice here, because they're supposed to have been good friends, missed opportunity to have Colin be in love with Penelope but unaware of his feelings like he's unaware of his talent. This is what show!Colin does better than book!Colin.
3. Only ONE sex scene?! Are you serious?!

Otherwise, I really liked it, it was a very fun, cheesy, romantic romp. The proposal scene is one of my all-time favourite pieces of comedy. Quinn's writing really comes across as kinetic here - the best in the book, really. Excited to see it adapted on screen, hoping Polin isn't rendered absolutely boring like the previous couples.

Melissa

I can’t breathe, this is a goddamn masterpiece

Might be my least favorite of the 4 I've read, but I couldn't stop laughing the entire time. I like Penelope, can't stand Collin

Emma Lechner

I wanted to read this before the show came out 

Chitra Kokkirala

I don't know if it's because I'm coming from the tv show but this felt so... underwhelming.😅 

It might be because the first half of the book was turning around the mystery of the identity of Lady Whistledown. I might have enjoyed that part but since I already knew her identify from the show it made it difficult to care. 

It might also be because Romancing Mister Bridgerton is set ten years after the last book so I had very little time with the other Bridgerton form previous books. Only the mention that they live happily with their kids and spouses. It's a shame because those moments where all the Bridgertons came together were my favorites. Hyacinth was the exception, I really liked her.

Colin and Penelope were one of my favorite character throughout the last 3 books so I don't what happened here that I found so bland for the most part. 

I liked the second half better but I'm still disappointed with how this turned out to be.  

Souhaila

I don't know if it's because I'm coming from the tv show but this felt so... underwhelming.😅 

It might be because the first half of the book was turning around the mystery of the identity of Lady Whistledown. I might have enjoyed that part but since I already knew her identify from the show it made it difficult to care. 

It might also be because Romancing Mister Bridgerton is set ten years after the last book so I had very little time with the other Bridgerton form previous books. Only the mention that they live happily with their kids and spouses. It's a shame because those moments where all the Bridgertons came together were my favorites. Hyacinth was the exception, I really liked her.

Colin and Penelope were one of my favorite character throughout the last 3 books so I don't what happened here that I found so bland for the most part. 

I liked the second half better but I'm still disappointed with how this turned out to be.  

upon my reread it’s clear that Colin has some weird comments and outburst and the writing does lack quite a bit? but this book still holds a dear place in my hear. i love penelope and colin’s story and i think whatever way shondaland change the story it will be wonderful 

Laura

Emma Fitzgerald 

what the actual FUCK

hard to convey my feelings for this one since I'm hysterically crying while I type this (wish I was kidding). this book was fantastic. friends to lovers IS the superior trope. polin are the cutest people to grace this earth.

I think I loved this book so much because I related SO HARD to both penelope and colin, their doubts, desires, dreams and need to transcend. they're both writers too, which certainly added to this. they felt so real and I loved that about them and the relationship they formed.

I do have to say I felt like Colin's perspective felt kinda rushed. he went from "oh this is pen, MY BFF" to "oh wait I wanna marry her" in like a few pages. I would've loved to see a lil bit of slowburn (on his side, since Penelope has been pining for him for four books already) in this book, maybe like him already starting the book having doubts, but whatever. I also didn't read two out of the three previous books so I may have missed something.

regardless, this was SO beautiful. the way colin fell so hard for her and couldn't stop worshipping her after that... sjdnwjgjwjg

they deserve the world, as do hyacinth, eloise, mrs. danbury and the rest of the bridgertons❤️ loved the family dynamics 

my angels deserve the world actually and yeah I'm back to sobbing because of them!!!

Michaela

Tis' another good book, as expected

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