
She was the bane of his existence. And the object of all his desires. All at once.
Anthony and Kate - a wannabe-enemies to very real lovers, with a bunch of sarcasm, fake-courting and reluctance to admit their feelings of desire and love on both ends. 4/5⭐️ 4/5🌶 Purple Tulips: deep, unconditional love Book blurb: 1814 promises to be another ebmventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indocation that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consumate rake, nobody does it better ... Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, April 1814 Having spent his twenties in a rakish pursiut of pleasure, Anthony Bridgerton knows it's high time he settled down and ensured the continuation of the Bridgerton line. Edwina Sheffield is the most beautiful debutante of the current season. She is sweet, innocent and eminently biddable - Anthony is Sure she'll make a perfectly acceptable wife and vows to make her his. The only obstacle in his way is Edwina's older sister, Kate, who is determined to do all she can to allow her sister the chance to marry for love rather than convenience. The roguish viscount is beginning to think he may have met his match in Kate's keen wit and sharp tongue. Until, that is, he makes the mistake of kissing her ... Book 2 of the Bridgerton Series starts off strong, but feels a bit rushed towards the end. In the beginning the book supassed the second season of the series storywise, but Kate's submissive and Anthony's questionable dominant tendencies toward the end made me question the characters and the ending in general. The TV series took a few liberties with the timing of bigger plotpoints - like the beesting, as well as Edwina's obliviousness toward Anthony's and Kate's feelings - which all in all made the story feel more balanced and the characters and love more fleshed out. The book is more than worth the read though :) Quote: Anthony to Kate during their first night "Listen to me and Listen well, because I'm only going to say this once. I desire you. I burn for you. I can't sleep at night for wanting you. Even when i didn't LIKE you, I lusted for you. It's the most maddening, beguiling, damnable thing, but there it is. And if I hear one more word of nonsense from your lips, I'm going to tie you on the bloody bed and have my way with you a hundred different ways, until you finally get it trough your silly skull, that you are the most beautiful and desirable woman in England and if everyone else doesn't see that, then they're all bloody fools." Enjoy❤️🔥 ~Rei