When He Was Wicked

My 2nd Bridgerton book and I have mixed feelings about this one. For 2/3 of the book I love Frannie and Michael and the other third they're really messy and need some good old therapy (the whole seduce to marriage and her denial was exhausting). Loved the ending.

This book talked about grief and unrequited love and I'm here for it. Pretty spicy for this series. I liked it. I appreciated that Francesca had lived a little more prior to this book.

LOVE IS A CHOICE!!!!

:-)

I think this might just be my fav bridgerton book

Something about Francesca's story just spoke to me, and it's by far my favorite Bridgerton book so far.

Okay this one was definitely one of the better ones. My new second fave? There was actual build up, and it was unique that the romantic interest was the realistic character and the Bridgerton was the one that was too perfect.

I really liked this one. I love how Francesca really is doing her own thing. I honestly so here for it. I also love Michael and in result their journey too. This was also in my opinion the spiciest one in the series so far. I was really enjoying this one and can’t believe it ended as quickly as it did.

No tenía muchas expectativas pero me ha encantado! Me ha hecho reponerme de la decepción del libro de Eloise

Another great book in this series. It's great seeing all of the Bridgerton siblings find their true match. This one was really amazing too. I hated how long it finally took for Francesca to finally understand that they were meant for each other. I did really enjoy how they felt like John would have approved. Great book and cute story but it hasn't been my favorite in the series.

this one was really interesting! i liked how the circumstances of francesca finding a husband is different from the rest of the books. the banter was fun as well. the plot development was good as well. the ended was so cute too!

A cute story. Felt like some aspects could have been investigated further but the characters were well-developed and I enjoyed the fact that we got both the povs

Not bad just... Not really my cup of tea unfortunately

love but i did miss the rest of the family having cameos like in the other books

Perfectly smutty and cheesy. The best type of romance

Found myself losing interest from time to time. Didn’t love this Bridgerton sibling as much as the others.

I didn’t like this one… I know these books are not the definition of feminism and women’s empowerment but ughhhhhhhh, I was really annoyed by most situations. I’ll keep reading them because they are my favorite guilty pleasure, but really how little I liked this one.

Maybe it was the holidays, maybe a reading slump, maybe even a potato episode of not wanting to do anything; who knows.

Even though this one took me longer than expected to finish I still enjoyed the story. I love this series and so happy to see it come to life (thanks Netflix 😊), and cannot wait to see how the story transpires onto screen.

Francesca (being 6 out of 8 Bridgertons) has captured the eye of Michael Sterling. London's most infamous rake. After a lifetime of chasing women, and smiling saying when they chase him, he finally allowed his heart to be captured. Unfortunately Francesca is married to his cousin.

That was then...now Michael is Earl. Francesca widowed. Michael dares not to speak to her of his love... until one dangerous night, when she steps innocently into his arms and passion proves stronger than even the most wicked of secrets.

I really enjoyed this! The spice was really good and the build up was 10/10. Very drama. Very romance. Very good.

Slow burn.

It is quite funny, if I ought to say so myself. I never had an opinion on Francesca, because she wasn’t as present as the others. She even said it herself that unlike her siblings, she didn’t quite feel like a Bridgerton. And yet it is one of my favorite books. Perhaps it was due to Colin, but truly who am I to fool? I am a sucker for friends to lovers as well as to the boy obsessed trope. This book, it was surprisingly perfect. And I truly enjoyed every page of it, unlike Eloise’s book where Phillip had me fuming every other chapter.

This was a really great book from beginning to end! Francesca and Michael's story was so cute and felt so genuine. Comparatively, this was one of my favs from this series. I think it has a great plot and characters. There is a shit ton of steamy scenes, just as an fyi.

3.5. I didn't expect to like this one as much as I did--the summary seemed rather off-putting, and thus I dragged my feet in starting it--but it turned out to be much lovelier and better handled than I'd expected, and there was more space between John's death and Michael's appearance on the ~romantic scene~ which honestly made it about 5000x better and the relief alone makes it worth the extra star to the half. But let's be real, we all know the real reason I bumped it to 4 for a 3.5 is because there was so much more Colin Bridgerton in it than expected, so.

** spoiler alert ** 3.5 — Tengo tantas cosas que decir de este libro, que no sé por dónde empezar. Francesca; una mujer a la que admiro porque se enfrentó no solo a una pérdida, si no a dos. Su esposo y su bebé. Michael; un hombre excepcional que supo respetar todo a sus seres queridos, que supo luchar por lo que quería y que supo perseverar. Tenía muchas expectativas de este libro, no todas se cumplieron pero no por ello significa que fue malo o no me gustó. Comenzando por el hecho que jamás me ha gustado el trope de qué la pareja de la/el protagonista muere y después se enamora de otra persona. Tengo mucho conflicto con eso, principalmente porque me gusta pensar que cuando alguien encuentra al amor de su vida en un libro le es fiel hasta después de la muerte. Por lo tanto fue un poco difícil leer como Francesca se enamoraba del primo de su esposo. Algo que me gustó mucho definitivamente fue que Michael respetó la relación de su primo; John, y de Francesca, antes y después de la muerte. Dándole tiempo a ella y a él mismo para vivir su luto. Me estresó muchísimo el hecho de que la mitad del libro tratara de Michael resistiendo al hecho de pedir la mano de Francesca (que es entendible, pero no menos estresante), la mitad de la segunda parte fue de Francesca negando sus sentimientos por Michael y la segunda mitad fue de Francesca resistiendo a casarse con él. Repito, es entendible los conflictos de los personajes sobre todo porque creían que faltaban al respeto a la memoria de John, y en serio lo entiendo, pero no hace que me produzca menos estrés. Fue estresante porque venía de leer libros de los hermanos Bridgerton en donde había muchas escenas de ambas parejas juntas, pasando momentos lindos, etc. Y de repente está este libro, en donde todo es conflicto personal, y más de Francesca. Me faltaron escenas domésticas de ambos, escenas para conocer su dinámica mejor. Ese es mi principal problema, porque no estuvieron juntos hasta el final LITERALMENTE. Ambos personajes me encantaron, aunque me fue difícil conectar con Francesca, creo que principalmente porque en los demás libros no tenemos interacción con ella, solo menciones. El epílogo me gustó, me hizo derramar lágrimas al leer la carta de Janet a Michael. “Y espero que no me consideres tonta porque también te doy las gracias. Gracias, Michael, por permitir que mi hijo la amara primero”. Michael y Francesca son tremenda pareja, pero sinceramente este libro no les hace justicia. Porque nos robaron momentos de ambos juntos. Ojalá en el epílogo extendido pueda encontrar esas escenas lindas y domesticas juntos.