i read bridgerton and now i'm depressed : a very opinionated book review and thoughts on historical nostalgia
After realizing that summer was coming to an end and I had still not read all eight books of Bridgerton by Julia Quinn (which I had put on my summer to-be-read list in may), I decided to make haste . Therefore, I took the opportunity to spend the next four days immersed in the oh-so average love stories of the Bridgerton siblings. For my readers who have neither seen the Netflix show nor read the book series ; Bridgerton is a series of Regency romance novels, published between 2000 and 2006, in which we follow eight siblings (named in alphabetical order) searching for love. The books have since then been adapted into a TV show by Shondaland with a much more diverse cast (but I’ll come back to this in one paragraph or two). There will be some spoilers. TW: Rape First and foremost, I would like to say that the books are known to be problematic. Apart from very typical misogynistic clichés - the aggressive and possessive male leads are always soooo overjoyed to find their manic...