I read Benedict Bridgerton's book and he belongs in jail??? | An Offer from a Gentleman review 

Book Benedict is a mess, so maybe they're taking their time writing his season and that's why they delayed his turn. 😂 So curious what they'll do in the show.

His whole book is an HR violation. It's a lot.

She’s, Mrs. Quinn, an interesting author. I will say, trying to stay polite, she lacks imagination.

idk if you saw this (and you might mention this later in the video), but a few days ago a casting call was published to be searching for “emily,” who is almost definitely Sophie. the call described the character as east asian, so i think it would be fun to instead of cinderella make it mulan. that way we can have sophie dressing as a man to disguise herself, and we can also explore more of benedict’s attraction to men.

My theory is that in the show they gave Benedict Colin's personality (and made him more loveable)... now here is the thing because Benedict took Colin's personality... when season 3 came out Colin had absolutely no personality... they can't really give Colin Benedict;s personality because if they were to do that everyone, would hate Colin... so while Benedict became a very lovable character Colin is just floating... confused... This is evident in the. entire season 3 but more prominently shown in season 3 part 1

that's why i'm taking the books and the series as two separate things 😂😬

I've seen a lot of people saying that Benedict's book is their favourite, and I'm like 😳

Everything I hear about the Bridgerton books makes me so confused as to what it was about them that make Netflix want to make a series out of them. Like non of them sound good-and I'm a huge fan of at least the second season of Bridgerton.

The Bridgeton are likable but people forget their stupid rich and have even higher social power.

omg I know exactly what you mean about the books being good until the actual romance starts 😭 I only read Romancing Mister Bridgerton, and I was laughing and really enjoying the book in the beginning. But I started getting irritated and bored once Colin and Penelope’s romance started and had the audiobook on 2.5 times speed 😭😭😭

The first bit was clearly a reap-off from Cinderella, no surprises there, but the rest is so much Jane Eyre. I was kind of wondering if we'd have a house on fire and a crazed person in the attic

if u wanna read more of quinn's work, i wholeheartedly recommend First Comes Scandal !! it's a little shocking that the book is written by the same author as the entire bridgerton series, because it's just so nice and... normal? It touches a LOT upon women's place in english society, the male lead is so sweet and honestly just a really nice guy, him and the female lead share a really comfortable friendly dynamic where the love feels so real and natural. The female lead is also a really interesting character who gets to defend herself from her abuse in a really refreshing way. for once, quinn's mentions of assault and violence against women seem tasteful. there are even discussions on consent taken place multiple times !!!!! (some of the conversations are funny because its like... girl... u wrote that legit in ur last book and now ure saying its bad ?? but regardless) It's genuinely an enjoyable, wholesome read. Plus bridgerton characters get fun little cameo

I read this book 15 years ago, when I was 16, and I did NOT like it. Now I remember why. This is just a horrible story. I don't understand how this can be someones favourite Bridgerton book....

omg i am SO glad I found your channel!! you are so funny and your voice is so lovely to listen to :) please keep up the great work, love the videos!

This was so entertaining! This book was such a frustrating read. You mentioned you'd read Eloise's book last but I hope you read Gregory's book too eventually. It was way more fun chaos than I ever expected from a Bridgerton book and Gregory is pretty unproblematic. It’s called On the Way to the Wedding.

I kinda hope they do quite a few inversions on this particular book, like I hope they play around with the potential for cross dressing and possibly Sophie sneaking into these domestic jobs and households for a greater purpose…mayhaps to get revenge on the still living Earl of Penwood that would be more fun for me personally but this show seems kinda unable to do intrigue of any kind. So we shall see.

Oh I feel you, I listened to the audiobook recently and was also not that impressed. The Cinderella story part was cliche but not in a fun way to me and I also was hoping for book Benedict to be somewhat closer to the Netflix character bc in the show he’s just the best and in the book he was. Eh. The forced proximity is kind of exactly my jam tho, it’s a guilty pleasure. but the plot/ points of conflict especially towards the end of the story felt forced, including the Posy redemption arc. (I also listened to the "second epilogue" where we hear posy’s happy ending and that made it worse somehow). Like, I’m reading a romance novel so I’m obviously hoping for a happy ending for the story but this felt so…. Curated to check all the boxes (revenge, redemption arc, solving the illegitimacy, money, happily ever after….) that it bothered me how "perfect" it was trying to be. What I didn’t find plausible while reading but find hilarious in hindsight is that this girl made this guy fall in love with her not once but TWICE. Iconic. And instead of being like 'oh it was her all along, I love her inside and out' - B had the audacity to be MAD?? I hope Netflix finds a way to give Benedict a love story line that is, at best, vaguely inspired by the book source material. His show character has so much potential, I’d hate to see it wasted on this book’s plot.

I hope you read next WHEN HE WAS WICKED francesca's story.

Preach. This book is my least favorite. 🤢 He's so manipulative and takes advantage of good power and position. It boggles my mind that it is often a favorite of the eight books. Also think that Francesca's romance is not great. Her story, is interesting and very different but the romance, no thanks.

bruh literally CINDERELLA??

literally pinning all my hopes on gregory to be a Normal Man

JFC, I haven't read the books so to me this is all new, and the more you describe what Benedict does in the book the more skeeved out I am by him. :/

This isn’t the Benny that we know!!!!

I don't understand how anybody reads that book and don't come out of it thinking both Sophie and Benedict are both highly problematic people lmao we out here saying Benedict abuses the power dynamic, which is correct. You say that you don't understand why Sophie apologised, but Sophie in a very short period of time has lied about her identity, watched Benedict undress without their consent, and PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED Benedict because she didn't like what he was saying. On the flipside, Benedict is financially abusive, blackmails Sophie, and fails to acknowledge her boundaries.

Bi man x gay man diverse cinderella au might be fun…dont let me down Bridgerton writing team

This video 👌👌👌

I HATED his character in the book, it was badly written and badly handled. I hope the show does his character justice because he's actually a likeable character on the show. The books are one violation after another.

omg what do you mean book benny is a YANDERE???

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