Episode 168 – The Duke And I (Bridgerton #1)
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
We teamed up with Anna and Alene of the Bellwether Friends again! We reconvened the Worst Best Friends to discuss the important topic of Bridgerton. Not the Netflix series, but one of the books that inspired it–The Duke and I by Julia Quinn. Unfortunately, the book is neither as horny nor as diverse as the series, but we persevered. Listen to this episode to drown out the sound of your seven siblings squabbling!
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Content warning: This book contains child abuse and dubious sexual consent.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “Bridgerton‘s Controversial Sex Scene Needs a Trigger Warning” by
“Bridgerton Has a Lot to Learn About Consent, and So Does Everyone Else” by Princess Weekes
“Phoebe Dynevor Responded to All the People Talking About Her Neck on Bridgerton” by Elizabeth Logan
“How Bridgerton Officially Became Netflix’s Biggest Hit Ever” by Joanna Robinson
Coming up next: Divine Evil by Nora Roberts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about aristocratic jizz so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:18.1 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.6 | And for this episode, we read The Duke and I by Julia Quinn. |
| 0:24.1 | Joining us to discuss the first book in the Bridgeton series are Anna and Aline of our sister podcast, Bellwether Friends. |
| 0:32.3 | And together we are the worst best friends. |
| 0:35.7 | Yeah, we are. |
| 0:36.5 | Yay. |
| 0:43.0 | Thanks for joining us again, guys. Anna pointed out before we started recording that the last time we record it together, which was for the royal family, |
| 0:49.9 | but in the America and the Revolutionary War never happened or whatever book, |
| 0:55.3 | was literally the day that the lockdown started, the day before the lockdown started in Massachusetts. |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.2 | So it's been almost exactly a year. |
| 1:07.4 | Still in lockdown, still reading about, not quite royalty, I guess. |
| 1:12.8 | They're still reading about rich people with church power. |
| 1:18.7 | It's evergreen. |
| 1:21.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:22.1 | We are always so excited to be here. |
| 1:24.5 | I was counting our visits and had completely blocked out the American |
| 1:29.6 | Royals. So thanks for remembering. Oh, I'm cursed with not being able to forget some of the |
| 1:38.9 | things that we read. Although I remember feeling neutral about that book. |
| 1:44.4 | Yeah, I feel like it wasn't the worst thing we read with you guys. |
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