ok maybe i’ll just pick the basic eight as favourite book because.

i’m bad at films, i think you should know that. i loved the hobbit, like, a lot, and i’ll be holding it in fond memory eternally bc it got me back into lotr.

that’s pretty harsh since i read the secret history (which seems terribly far away already), the blind assassin, the bloody chamber, arcadia, this lullaby, deathless, the disreputable history of frankie landau-banks, talulla rising, i capture the castle and the basic eight all this year. actually, when i look at all of the books that i read this year, it’s too difficult to decide.

hmm if you didn’t like the first book enough to continue the series idk how to sell it but 1. mobsters + noir 2. cassel sharpe may or may not be the best con artist alive 3. lila zacharov exists 4. delightful makeouts 5. the relationship between cassel and barron is… well… gut-wrenching 6. really well-constructed magic + ~society stuff~ 7. generally barron sharpe

and it just. gets. better.

so yes do continue you’re missing something if you don’t! :)

the bridgerton kids: hyacinth - anthony - colin - daphne - francesca - gregory - eloise - benedict

top 5 women:

1. hyacinth bridgerton
2. penelope featherington
3. kate sheffield
4. lady danbury
5. daphne bridgerton

ranking of the novels: the viscount who loved me - romancing mr bridgerton - it’s in his kiss - the duke and i - on the way to the wedding - when he was wicked - to sir phillip with love - an offer from a gentleman

top 5 ships

1. colin/penelope
2. anthony/kate
3. hyacinth/gareth
4. daphne/simon
5. honorable mention: my headcanon for francesca/michael which was not like the book at all