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To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn

34 reviews

wyrmwood's review against another edition

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dark sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Sir Philip deserves to be castrated
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kerry_lawless31's review against another edition

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Sir Philip go to jail!!! 

TW: SA 

Honestly I didn't finish it, as soon as Philip admits he SA'd his wife I couldn't really read on. I don't care how often he feels remorse for how he treats his children or how he treated his wife, he's a terrible person.
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wild_rabbits's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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claudcloud's review against another edition

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sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

Was Julia Quinn simply in the mood to commit a crime when she decided to marry Eloise off to someone who 1. she barely knows, 2. emotionally abandoned his children their entire lives because he was "scared he'd turn into his father" so he never even tried, 3. makes his wife's suicide all about him and only talks about how difficult it was for him to be married to a depressed person, 4. commits marital rape even though he knows full well that his wife is in no condition to consent, 5. in spite of that, is unable to stop mentioning how long it's been and how much he wants sex every 2 pages once they're married because he hasn't gotten any in eight years, as if that somehow justifies any of it, and 6. LITERALLY TELLS HER TO CONSIDER "SHUTTING HER MOUTH AND USING IT FOR SOME OTHER PURPOSE"????

All I have to say is the show better give her a story worthy of the brilliant character she is because this? Is not it, at all.
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hannahm23's review against another edition

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1.25

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nightstitch96's review against another edition

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medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.5

The way this book talks about depression and suicide is disgusting. Phillip is horrible. I cannot believe he is constantly referred to as a good man while he:
 
1. was incredibly neglectful and toxic to his children.
2. was CONSTANTLY talking about how his wife's depression was such a "burden on him" and "how hard is it to just be happy" and how he's "not bad in bed so how dare she just lay there and not enjoy it"
3. literally said that Marina "couldn't even kill herself properly"
4. was constantly telling Eloise to stop talking
5. literally said "will you just shut up and do something else with that mouth" when Eloise was trying to tell him about how something was wrong with how the kid's caretaker was treating the kids
6. acting like he owned Eloise
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mariskyjy's review against another edition

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Thought I would grow to like Eloise's love interest after hearing more of his back story, but I can't stand him.

Tw: noncon, child abuse, mention of post partum depression below


• said he hadn't had sex in a long time and went to visit wife marina. "She didn't say no," (I think the implication was PPD) but seemed disinterested. He felt awful afterwards, which is a *great* excuse (sarcasm)

• the kids are terrified of him. "His" son asks, upon getting in trouble, "are you going to hit us?" And Philip is a menacing presence to them, and doesn't know how to parent them. Like even if you have never hit your kid(s) (which Eloise is convinced that she's *such* a good judge of character, despite only meeting this guy within the last week, that Phillip could *never* abuse his kids), they shouldn't be terrified that you're going to. End of sentence. No, wait: fuck this guy. Now end of sentence.

• spoiler, the "reasoning" for this is eventually that his father was horribly abusive towards him, and Phillip is trying not to be like him. Cool reason, bro. I get that therapy was not a huge thing back then (assuming) but my god. Work on yourself to not be like your father.
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m_allardyce's review against another edition

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emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

Upon seeing her best friend become engaged to her brother, Eloise Bridgerton realises that her dreams of growing an old maid with Penelope have been quashed and she must, at long lost, succumb to the pressure of an appropriate marriage. The intriguing pen-pal she has been liaising with seems just the man and so, in true Eloise fashion, she rides straight to him without a moment’s hesitation. Only, her ideal husband turns out to be anything but when she finally meets Sir Phillip in person. 

I truly hated this book. As much as I think it was an interesting look into Eloise’s psyche, reflecting on her views of marriage despite the success her siblings have found in their own matches, and cementing the level of friendship between her and Penelope, I spent the entire novel thinking “she could do way better!” Sir Philip is awful! He’s a terrible father, neglecting his children completely then acting surprised that he has no tangible relationship with them. He’s a terrible husband, assaulting his first wife Marina who was suffering with depression, then expecting Eloise to simply fill the shoes of mother and wife with no consideration of her as a person. He’s another victim of Quinn’s “all men are always angry and mean” characterisation, and even though there’s something endearing about his profession as a botanist, it does nothing to soften his character into anything like likeable. Eloise could have had such a wonderful story of discovering her queerness, or finding a marriage of convenience to support her desire for education, or even just another boring not-quite-enemies-to-lovers story like her siblings. Instead, she landed herself as a glorified replacement, and I hated every minute of her ending up there. 
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ambrosiablue's review against another edition

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slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

I read this book because I liked the Netflix show so much that I wanted to read ahead. I regret it, and hope Netflix does a better job with Eloise's story.
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lerl_'s review

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slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

i think i can fairly say that reading this means i've also read men are from mars, women are from venus. 

eloise deserved so much better than a man that sexually assaulted his suicidal wife and then neglects his children after her death. 
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