A review by motivationsloch
To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn

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

2.0

I'm negatively surprised. Eloise - the tough girl fighting for her own right is taking the second-best (or maybe the fourth-best). 
In the letters in each chapter's beginning you can clearly see that she detested features of Sir Phillip - more in numbers but exactly the same issues - that she pointed out for her previous suitors.
Phillip appears to be ignorant for her and his children's needs which should clearly be a sign that he won't be any better to her own future children. The change of his whole attire in the end isn't that strongly supported by the text and would have needed some more time - even if the development is splendid (a wort Julia Quinn uses more than regularly).
Apart from all, I think Sir Phillip shows the most misogynistic tendencies in the whole series as far (apart from the drunken men in the Sophie part) and I was stunned in the worst way that Eloise wasn't helping herself. She could have run before her brothers have arrived. 
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