I read Benedict Bridgerton's book and he belongs in jail??? | An Offer from a Gentleman review
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- once again i have subjected myself to over 300 pages of a man being really annoying!!! stay tuned for my reactions to Francesca's and Eloise's books lol
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
01:38 - Prologue
03:56 - The masquerade ball
10:07 - The rescue
13:40 - The "offer" (it's blackmail)
24:12 - London
28:37 - The reveal
29:40 - 3rd act shenanigans
34:07 - Book review
38:29 - Hopes for TV show
tags: An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn, Bridgerton book review, Benedict Bridgerton, Benedict and Sophie
She’s, Mrs. Quinn, an interesting author. I will say, trying to stay polite, she lacks imagination.
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Book Benedict is a mess, so maybe they're taking their time writing his season and that's why they delayed his turn. 😂 So curious what they'll do in the show.
we can only hope 😭 I didn’t love season 3 so my enthusiasm is a bit tempered but Benny is my fave and I hope he gets a proper season
that's why i'm taking the books and the series as two separate things 😂😬
Everything I hear about the Bridgerton books makes me so confused as to what it was about them that make Netflix want to make a series out of them.
Like non of them sound good-and I'm a huge fan of at least the second season of Bridgerton.
apparently shonda read the books on vacation and really liked them lol i think the family aspect was probably a big selling point because it gives them many potential seasons. but i do wonder why this series and not any other ones with more compelling romance
omg I know exactly what you mean about the books being good until the actual romance starts 😭
I only read Romancing Mister Bridgerton, and I was laughing and really enjoying the book in the beginning. But I started getting irritated and bored once Colin and Penelope’s romance started and had the audiobook on 2.5 times speed 😭😭😭
yeah it's set up for a fun and cute romance until the man starts acting like a giant baby 😭
My theory is that in the show they gave Benedict Colin's personality (and made him more loveable)... now here is the thing because Benedict took Colin's personality... when season 3 came out Colin had absolutely no personality... they can't really give Colin Benedict;s personality because if they were to do that everyone, would hate Colin... so while Benedict became a very lovable character Colin is just floating... confused... This is evident in the. entire season 3 but more prominently shown in season 3 part 1
I kinda hope they do quite a few inversions on this particular book, like I hope they play around with the potential for cross dressing and possibly Sophie sneaking into these domestic jobs and households for a greater purpose…mayhaps to get revenge on the still living Earl of Penwood that would be more fun for me personally but this show seems kinda unable to do intrigue of any kind. So we shall see.
I love that idea!! would be so fun especially without the Lady Whistledown plot for intrigue from now on. but yeah idk how creative they’ll get
This isn’t the Benny that we know!!!!
The Bridgeton are likable but people forget their stupid rich and have even higher social power.
I've seen a lot of people saying that Benedict's book is their favourite, and I'm like 😳
Oh I feel you, I listened to the audiobook recently and was also not that impressed. The Cinderella story part was cliche but not in a fun way to me and I also was hoping for book Benedict to be somewhat closer to the Netflix character bc in the show he’s just the best and in the book he was. Eh.
The forced proximity is kind of exactly my jam tho, it’s a guilty pleasure.
but the plot/ points of conflict especially towards the end of the story felt forced, including the Posy redemption arc. (I also listened to the "second epilogue" where we hear posy’s happy ending and that made it worse somehow). Like, I’m reading a romance novel so I’m obviously hoping for a happy ending for the story but this felt so…. Curated to check all the boxes (revenge, redemption arc, solving the illegitimacy, money, happily ever after….) that it bothered me how "perfect" it was trying to be.
What I didn’t find plausible while reading but find hilarious in hindsight is that this girl made this guy fall in love with her not once but TWICE. Iconic. And instead of being like 'oh it was her all along, I love her inside and out' - B had the audacity to be MAD??
I hope Netflix finds a way to give Benedict a love story line that is, at best, vaguely inspired by the book source material. His show character has so much potential, I’d hate to see it wasted on this book’s plot.
Sophie really is an icon for that 😂 and the second time she was (according to Benedict himself) wearing the most hideous dresses known to man which just makes it even more iconic
omg i am SO glad I found your channel!! you are so funny and your voice is so lovely to listen to :) please keep up the great work, love the videos!
thank you so much! 💖
bruh literally CINDERELLA??
idk if you saw this (and you might mention this later in the video), but a few days ago a casting call was published to be searching for “emily,” who is almost definitely Sophie. the call described the character as east asian, so i think it would be fun to instead of cinderella make it mulan. that way we can have sophie dressing as a man to disguise herself, and we can also explore more of benedict’s attraction to men.
i hadn't seen that but this makes me really excited! agree that the crossdressing element would be fun, another commenter suggested that too
JFC, I haven't read the books so to me this is all new, and the more you describe what Benedict does in the book the more skeeved out I am by him. :/
I read this book 15 years ago, when I was 16, and I did NOT like it. Now I remember why. This is just a horrible story. I don't understand how this can be someones favourite Bridgerton book....
I hope you read next WHEN HE WAS WICKED francesca's story.
yes it's next!!