This isn’t Batman… But it is our deep dive into The Duke and I (2000) by Julia Quinn! Join Lydia and Taylor for book 1 of the Bridgertons as we discuss tropes, patriarchy, consent, soap opera punches to the face, brothers, sassy butlers, and Regency sex ed. Plus: Lydia’s modern resetting of the book, and Taylor’s reading recommendations.
The song Lydia definitely didn’t sing is “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)” by Betty Everett, popularized by Cher.
CW: sexual assault, miscarriage
Thanks for listening! Look out for part one of The Viscount Who Loved Me in two weeks.
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Books quoted or mentioned:
Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice (1813)
Kylie Scott, Repeat (2019)
Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Bookclub (2019)
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920)
What we’re reading:
Jessie Mihalik, Polaris Rising (2019)
Alisha Rai, Girl Gone Viral (Modern Love #2) (2019)
Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra (The Ravenels #6) (2019)
Rebecca Roanhorse, Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World) (2018)
Recommendations based on The Duke and I:
Dukes:
[contemporary]
Alyssa Cole, A Duke by Default (2018)
[Regency]
Courtney Milan, The Duchess War (Brothers Sinister #1) (2012
Kelly Bowen, Duke of My Heart (2016)
Tessa Dare, The Governess Game (2018)
Sarah MacLean, The Day of the Duchess (2017), No Good Duke Goes Unpunished (2013) and The Rogue Not Taken (2015)
Lisa Kleypas, The Devil in Winter (2006)
BFF’s sibling trope:
JQ, The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever (Bevelstoke #1) (2007) & Just Like Heaven (Smythe-Smith Quartet #1) (2011)
Regency dukes plus British colonization of India:
Meredith Duran, Duke of Shadows (2008)
Regency dukes and the 99%:
Elizabeth Hoyt’s “Maiden Lane” series (2010)
Fake relationship trope [contemporary]:
Talia Hibbert’s Ravenswood series (#3, That Kind of Guy, 2019)
Lucy Parker’s London Celebrities series (#1, Act Like It, 2015)
Alyssa Cole's A Prince on Paper (2019)
Helen Hoang’s The Kiss Quotient (2018)
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