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

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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