Like many people I fell hook, line and sinker for the Bridgerton Series after the first season aired on Netflix this year and after it finished, I eagerly devoured every single novel (as did my Gran!) to find out what happened to the Bridgerton brood and their quest to find love.
Having been left with a broody, book hangover without the Bridgerton’s to keep me entertained, I’ve moved on to the Smythe-Smiths family, of which the series starts with ‘Just Like Heaven’. Anybody who has read the Bridgerton series will probably recall an annual musicale that tortures the ears of any attendees and our not ‘musically-blessed’ performers are the girls from the Smythe-Smiths family!
Like the musicale, the Smythe-Smiths series is a quartet featuring Honoria, Daniel, Sarah and Iris. The style of writing and theme of the novels is similar to that of the Bridgerton series, so if you’re a fan of romantic, historical love stories with tall, dark and handsome brooding earls (plus the slightly swoony sex scenes), then they are definitely for you. It’s not just the romance or the smutty sex I enjoy, but the witty, humorous dialogue and the feisty personalities of our female leads. I quite frankly adore Julia Quinn’s writing and the escapism from reality she creates.
Although they probably could be read as independent books and I understand that the famous dual is covered in some form in at least the first three, I truly feel reading them in the chronological order they are written in is best. I can’t wait to read book number 3 and hope to see more of the Smythe-Smiths family on my TV soon (Hint, hint Netlfix).
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