To Sir Phillip, With Love Review

To Sir Phillip, With Love is the fifth book in Julia Quinn's Bridgertons series. I am loving this series so much. I completely understand why so many people love the Bridgertons. Julia Quinn's writing comes off as witty and effortless. I also really enjoy seeing the family interactions between the Bridgerton siblings. They don't just disappear after their love story is told.

Philip and Elosie, the fifth Bridgerton sibling, have been writing letters to each other. Now that she is considered to be a spinster, Philip proposes to her via a letter. When Eloise suddenly shows up at his home, he expected to see a plain woman desperate for an offer of marriage not the beautiful woman in front of him.

Elosie isn't unmarried because she has yet to receive a marriage offer. She wants a love marriage like the ones her siblings have found for themselves. But after her best friend gets married to her brother, Elosie suddenly feels left behind. She decides to take Philip up on his offer and meet him at his home to see if they are suitable.

I absolutely love the Bridgertons series and I can't wait to read Julia Quinn's other books as well. With that said, To Sir Philip, With Love has been my least favorite book so far. It did not have the same wild passions as the first four books in the series, but that's not such a bad thing. Sure, there were some passionate moments between Philip and Eloise but there was also the formality of Philip being practical and looking for a mother for his children, not passion. Of course, he ends up getting both a wonderful mother for his twins and a wonderful lover for himself.

The romance that developed between Philip and Elosie starts to feel real once he opens up to her and as she pushes him to spend more time with his children. The children do bring the couple together while not being annoying at the same time.

I tend to stay away from books dealing with small children or babies (especially surprise baby romances) because kids tend to be annoying if they're a huge part of the plot. In this book, the twins do play pranks on Elosie in an attempt to make her leave but in reality they're just acting out because their father barely pays attention to them. Philip, on the other hand, just doesn't know how to take care of children. He wasn't raised with a loving father. How is he supposed to know how to act?

While children in romance novels are not really my thing, I feel like Julia Quinn wrote them well so I can't really complain.

Despite the slower start to this book, I still really enjoyed To Sir Phillip, With Love. Julia Quinn's writing is still fantastic and I'm in love with this series.