{"id":385,"date":"2006-01-13T21:57:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T02:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=385"},"modified":"2024-04-14T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T21:42:49","slug":"quinn_duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/01\/quinn_duke\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinn, Julia: (01) The Duke and I<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought a Palm Z22 recently, and its software bundle had some sample e-books, including Julia Quinn’s The Duke and I<\/cite><\/strong>. This reminded me that I’d gulped down a number of Quinn’s books some months ago, and then left them in a desk drawer at work and never bothered to log them. So I dug out The Duke and I<\/cite> and re-read it during a wait at the car dealership.<\/p>\n

Possibly I should have re-read it some other time, because while there’s nothing actively wrong with it, I spent most of my time noticing the ways in which the author contrived to get the characters together and then apart: pretending to be involved for practical purposes; a forced marriage; a big secret; an irrational fear. This is the first of Quinn’s series about the eight Bridgerton siblings, and as I recall each book stands alone fairly well (in contrast to James’ Four Sisters series, which I suspect of extending one sister’s plot over several volumes, and what is it about Regencies and sibling series these days?). Since this one lost its charm for me on a re-read, I may not bother with the rest, and just bring them home and shelve them—except perhaps for the fourth (Romancing Mister Bridgerton<\/cite>, and how I wish romance novels had better titles), which I recall as being a nice story about working at friendship and at writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought a Palm Z22 recently, and its software bundle had some sample e-books, including Julia Quinn’s The Duke and I. This reminded me that I’d gulped down a number of Quinn’s books some months ago, and then left them in a desk drawer at work and never bothered to log them. So I dug … <\/p>\n

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