Bridgeton: The Viscount Who Loved Me Read-along

Monday….Prologue – 4
Tuesday……………5 – 10
Wednesday……..11 – 13
Thursday…………14 – 17
Friday…….18 – Epilogue

Tuesday

Join in. I’ve read this one many times (love the series 📚) Reread it at 2x speed. I can get to at least Chapter 11

Not too detailed (intentionally)👇🏼 Just notes 😉

• Prologue
  • Anthony born
  • Edmund s tragic death at 38
• Anthony a RAKe (1814)
  • Edwinas and Kate read about Anthony
  • Edwinas and Kate OUT 😂
  • Kate doesn’t want Edwina to end up with someone like Anthony
  • Anthony states he’ll marry this year (close to 30)
    • Anthony not pressured to have kids
  • Anthony claims he’ll marry Edwina this year
• Anthony asks Edwina to dance
  • Kate 🤬
  • Mary 😍
  • Kate & Colin 😏
    • Kate finds she likes Colin
    • Colin a troll 😂
    • Colin introduces Kate & Anthony
• Anthony & Kate dance
  • Anthony directly asks WHY Kate hates him
  • Anthony takes a page out of Simon’s book 💐💐💐
• Anthony calls on the Shefeld girls 👧👧👧
  • Edwina out with Nigel Burbeook
    • Anthony offers to wait
• Going on an errand (bring Anthony)
  • See Edwina 😱
• Kate asks questions 🙋‍♀️ about Edwina & Anthony’s ride home 🏡
  • Burbeook 🥱
  • List of possible matches
  • Kate scared 😱 of thunder
  • Mary and Kare go to the Bridgeton musical (party) without Edwina
    • Anthony desired by attendees and entertainment
      • Kate watching
    • Kate meets Lady Bridgeton
    • Kate witnesses Anthony being rakish
      • Kate trapped in the office 😱
        • Anthony smells her 😏
      • Anthony dreams of Kate 🤬😂
        • Flirting with Maria Rossa
• After Anthony kisses 😘 Kate ⚾️
  • Anthony feels a NEED
  • Because Anthony wanted to
  • Kate asks “Why?”
  • Anthony plans on calling on Kate again
• Lady Bridgeton’s country house 🏡 party in Kent (Aubrey Hall)
  • Meant to marry off a Bridgeton son
  • Sheffield girls 👧👧👧 there
  • Gardens 🪴
    • Violet directs Anthony to flower gardens 😏
      • Anthony sees Kate 😍
• Kiss 😘 Kate again?
  • Colin interruption 🙅🏽‍♀️
    • Daphne and Simon have arrived
    • Pall-mall 😂😊
      • Colin escorts Kate
      • Daphne introduces herself to Kate
      • Anthony waiting on Edwina
        • Silence 🤫
      • Kate has the mallet of death (black)
      • Goal: sink opponent’s ball into the lake
      • Bad sportsmanship ✅ 😂🤬😇
      • Anthony sends Kate’s ball down a hill 🤬
      • Kate’s turn 🤔
        • Sabotage Anthony 😏 😂
  • Daphne pregnant 🤰
  • Anthony 🤬 towards Colin 😂
  • Anthony going to get the sunken ball
  • Anthony and Kate left behind 😏

Chapter 6 (reflect after I’ve read the chapter)

Kate’s dislike for Anthony was apparent from Chapter 1. The scene between Kate & Colin 😂 Anthony brings flowers 💐😍 The carriage scene happened sooner than I remember 🧐 (I was remembering a different scene 🤦🏼‍♀️) Newton 😍 definitely speeds up the timeline in my mind 🤗 See how protective Anthony can get 🤬

Chapter 11

The Bridgeton musicale (where I believe Kate & Anthony begin). 1st kiss 😘 🙌🏽 Kate hiding under the desk 😂🙈 Anthony incriminating himself 🤬 The Lady Bridgeton’s country house 🏡 party 🎊 👍🏽 😏 😊😂 The Pall-mall scene was iconic 😂👏🏽

Wednesdayis

• Country house party 🎉 after pall-Mall
  • Anthony’s boon 🙌🏽
    • “Do you hate me?” 😏
  • Rival: Cressida Cooper
  • Anthony a 🦸‍♂️ 😍
• Anthony will escort Pennelope in 😍 Change Kate’s opinion of him 🤔
  • Kate goes to library. See Anthony 😱
    • Kate scared 😱 of thunderstorms 🌩
      • Anthony finds Kate hiding under the table
        • Anthony comforts Kate
        • Forms a friendship
• Day after – Kate on the lawn! Anthony spots her
  • Kate sees Anthony sought her out
    • Worried 😟
  • Kate no longer objects to Anthony
  • Spark between Anthony & Kate 🤔
  • Bees 🐝 buzzing around Kate
    • Anthony paralyzed in fear 😧 🤬
    • Kate stung 🐝
      • Anthony expresses venom ➡️ sucks site 😂🦸‍♂️
      • Witnessed by Mrs. Featherington 😱

Chapter 14

In this section, Kate learns more about Anthony (to her liking 😏). This section was very Anthony and Kate centric 🧐 Bee 🐝 scene is also iconic 😂🙌🏽

Thursday

• Katr & Anthony have an audience of 3 (Lady Bridgeton, Mary Sheffield, Lady Portia Featheranton)
  • Nothing to do but get married
    • Marry next week 😏
  • Sealed with a kiss 😘 ⚾️ 😏
  • Kate has a hard time believing Anthony wants to marry her
  • Edwina joyful for the engagement
  • Anthony pays a visit 😏
    • 🗣Marriage logistics
    • Bridgeton ring 💍
    • Kiss 😘 + more 😏
    • Anthony leaves
      • Gone until Saturday
    • Kate worried 😱
• Wedding 💒
  • Marriage expectations 😏 from Mary
  • Kate fearful 😨 😱
  • At Bridgeton house 🏡
  • Plans for after the wedding: eventually move into Bridgeton house 🏡
    • Kate wants to wait a week
    • Anthony 🙅🏽‍♂️ but concedes
      • How will Kate prepare? Kate’s insecureities 🧐
• Kate consents to honor her wedding night
  • Anthony 😍 looking down at Kate
  • ⚾️⚾️⚾️
  • Kate’s face 🤬 at being called beautiful
    • Anthony 🤬🤬🤬😘

Chapter 18

Anthony’s visit 😏 like that Anthony leaves promptly 👏🏽 Kate is insecure 🤨 understandably so… Anthony perceptive with Kate 😍 Brings out Anthony’s insecurities…1 week wait not necessary 😏 Anthony’s tenderness 😍 I really like how tender Anthony is with Kate 😍

Friday

• Anthony visibly 😍 with Kate
  • Smolder in public
  • Edwina feeling less pressure
  • Edwina on having a brother 😍
  • Anthony to provide a dowry for Edwina 😍
  • Kate’s nightmare about her mom 😱😭 with the thunder ⛈
    • 🗣to Mary
      • Promise to love and cherish Kate 😍
      • Kate feels optimistic 👍🏽
    • Kate poses feelings of impending death
      • Anthony relates to Kate’s feelings
      • 🤬 for facing her fears
        • Anthony admits to himself loving Kate
          • ⚾️⚾️⚾️ (20)
            • Always & forever 🤬 Anthony freaks out
      • Kate senses Anthony is bothered 🤬
        • Anthony goes to Bridgeton House 🏡
        • Sends message to Kate
      • Kate at Bridgeton House 🏡
        • Confronts Anthony but he doesn’t want to talk 🤫 🤬
  • Colin and Benedict come across Anthony
    • Talk to Kate
      • Go to find Kate
  • Carriage accident 😱
    • Hyde Park
    • Kate, Edwina, Newton, and Mr. Bagwell
    • Get Kate out
      • Kate screams 😱
        • Left leg broken🤕
        • 1 month to heal
  • Anthony shares his sense of impending doom
    • Just get to 40 (39 😱)
    • Anthony tells Kate he loves her 😍
    • Anthony tells Kate how much he loves her 😏
• Epilogue- 40th birthday 🥳
• 2nd Epilogue – more Pall mall 😏 Replay match 😂
  • Kate steals the mallot of death? 😇😂
    • Anthony 🤬
    • Colin took the mallot for 10 pounds 😂😂😂
  • Let the games begin!
    • Anthony sabotages Kate
    • On Kate’s turn, hits Anthony’s ball 😂
      • Anthony hits Kate’s ball into the water 😂😂😂😇
    • Keep the mallot of death from Colin

End of book 📖

For a man who claims he will not love his wife, Anthony publicly dotes on Kate 😍 Forgot about the scene after the thunderstorm ⛈ Appreciate these talks with Mary 😍 Kate’s mom died of lung disease 🪦 Her mom died in a thunderstorm ⛈ 😭 Remember the carriage scene 🥲 Can feel Anthony’s fear 😧 😬 The epilogue contained a much-needed conversation between Anthony and Kate 😍 2nd epilogue 40th birthday 🥳 🙌🏽 Whistledown still writing 🤔 2nd epilogue 🙌🏽 Pall mall 😏😂 Still fighting for the mallet of death 🤬 2nd epilogue tells us ⚠️ Colin marries Penelope 😉 The 😂 between Kate & Anthony.