I also think my judgment of Simon is clouded by how unbelievably hot Regé-Jean Page is, so I’ll have to recuse myself from making any assessments on his character in the book. Personally, I think Spring Awakening (both the original German play and the 2000s rock musical) does it way better. That being said, I do think it’s interesting how common the “I don’t know about sex!” plot point is. Daphne is but a vehicle for you to imagine getting railed by the cantankerously sexy Duke. (Maybe if you included all the Bridgerton books the total would begin to approach all the murmurs in Twilight.) Were there any specific style or writing things that bugged you?ĭucharme I think Daphne is a lot like Twilight’s Bella in the sense that she’s so flat that any woman reading it can project herself onto her. I did a control-F in my Kindle app when I finished, and I found that there were a total of 31 rakes or rakishes, which is actually fewer than I thought. Some pages literally had, like, five rakes. I feel a bit like a stiff old prig myself even bringing this all up, but there’s one more thing that bugged me, which is how many times the word rake or rakish was used. Like, how many times did they remind us that anger most incited the Duke’s stutter? There is a lot of repetition to make sure the reader doesn’t miss or forget the most important things. I have to agree that a lot of the sentences were very bad-but not unreadable. The novel, though, would have us believe that passion has its demands, and all we can do at times is yield, even on stone stairs. I haven’t seen the show at all, but that does sound uncomfortable. Maxon: That is amazing about the stone stairs scene. Thanks for signing up! You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.
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