“I had to do something, (…) I couldn’t just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.”
Genre: Historical Romance
Actual Rating: 4 stars
Spicy Meter: 4.5 fire emojis
Content Warnings: Discusses suicide, parent death, child abuse, and grief.
“To Sir Phillip, With Love” is the fifth book in the Bridgerton book series, and it follows the fifth out of eight Bridgerton siblings: Eloise. Eloise Bridgerton is already considered a spinster, unmarried at 28 years of age, when she starts to correspond with her distant cousin’s widowed husband, Sir Phillip Crane. After a year’s correspondence, and right after her best friend Penelope marries her older brother, she decides to run away to meet him and properly determine if he could be the one for her.
If you’ve seen the Bridgerton Netflix series, you’ve actually met Sir Phillip Crane already, he is the one who’s married to Marina, who’s portrayed in the Netflix series as a Featherington cousin and is a prominent character in the first season, while she’s written as a Bridgerton cousin in the books and hadn’t really been mentioned until now.
This book is sweet and gentle, filled with suspense, as we never know what Eloise might do with her volatile nature. Through this story, we get to see sides of her, both maternal and affectionate, that we haven’t really seen before. It was truly a wonderful read.
I would recommend this book to readers who enjoy Regency Era romances, and who like the idea of pen pals falling in love, sight unseen. Also, it gave me some Sunshine meets Grumpy trope vibes, but take that with a grain of salt.
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