The season amassed 193 million viewing hours in its opening weekend, the highest opening for any English-language Netflix series at the time. Jonathan Bailey reprised his role as Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton with Simone Ashley playing Kate. The novel is the inspiration for the second season of the Netflix series Bridgerton which premiered on March 25, 2022. 2001 RITA Awards Nomination in the Long Historical Category.New York Times Extended Bestseller list.Publishers Weekly Mass Market Bestseller.In March 2022, People ranked The Viscount Who Loved Me, a perennial fan favorite, as the best book of the Bridgerton series for its enemies-to-lovers trope 'full of banter and chemistry' with character development for the central couple, 'both as a pair and on their own.' Kate ends up in a carriage accident and Anthony ends up admitting to her that he loves her. However, Kate struggles with her growing feelings for Anthony as he insists that while he will marry her, he will never love her.Īnthony becomes conflicted when he starts falling in love with his wife. Society gossip accepts that the viscount was actually courting Kate when he seemed to be visiting Edwina, and Edwina is happy for them, having suspected Kate's affection. He is overcome with fear and attempts to tend the wound they are caught in a compromising position by their mothers, leading Anthony to declare he will marry Kate to protect their reputations. While visiting Aubrey Hall, the Bridgertons' country estate, Kate is stung by a bee while with Anthony.

Despite the animosity between the two, a mutual attraction begins to develop when they share a kiss attempt to deny.

When Anthony begins to court Edwina, Kate is determined to interfere, doubting that he is reformed from his roguish ways. She is determined to find a suitable husband for Edwina, who is intelligent and renowned for her beauty, and is less hopeful about her own prospects as a near spinster. Meanwhile, Kate Sheffield arrives in London's ton with her younger half-sister Edwina and her stepmother Mary. Haunted by his father's death at a young age from a bee sting, Anthony now believes, albeit irrationally, that he will die young too, and does not want the complication of falling in love. In 1814, after years as one of the most notorious rakes of the ton, Anthony, The Viscount Bridgerton, decides to settle down and carry on the family line. It is the second novel of Quinn's Bridgerton series set in Regency England and tells the story of Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton who is the eldest of the Bridgerton siblings. The Viscount Who Loved Me is a 2000 historical romance novel written by Julia Quinn, first published by Avon.

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