Romancing Mister Bridgerton

by Julia Quinn

Genres: Romance

416 pages, Hardcover

Published December 30, 2025

About the author

#1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn loves to dispel the myth that smart women don't read (or write) romance, and and if you watch reruns of the game show The Weakest Link you might just catch her winning the $79,000 jackpot. She displayed a decided lack of knowledge about baseball, country music, and plush toys, but she is proud to say that she aced all things British and literary, answered all of her history and geography questions correctly, and knew that there was a Da Vinci long before there was a code.

A graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, Ms. Quinn is one of only sixteen members of Romance Writers of America’s Hall of Fame. Her books have been translated into 32 languages, and she lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest.

The Bridgertons, her popular series of historical romance, is currently in production by Shondaland as a Netflix original series starring Julie Andrews, Phoebe Dynevor, and Rége-Jean Page.

Reviews

[STish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful!

[Emmaline]

2/27/2026: from going from not wanting to read these books to watching the tv shows because of a friend and now because of the same friend I am collecting these editions. Sighs, life of a reader (I love it). I caved and bought this yesterday, even though I really shouldn't have, and now I need to find the third seeing as this is the fourth. I don't think the rest are out yet...

[Sarah Jamieson · Rating 4 out of 5]

An automatic star off for Colin Bridgerton's anger management issues. This one should/could have been the most interesting for the plot of Penelope and the Lady Whistledown mystery. This one dragged along way too slow for my taste - but it's still really good.

[Jerry]

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[Mtan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think overall this book was better than the show

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great Book!