📚 book review 📚 

The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever 

By Julia Quinn

🎧 Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin 

Series: Bevelstoke, Book 1 

Book 62 of 2024

This is my fourth Julia Quinn series. I had never picked up a historical romance until after I watched the first season of Bridgerton, and now I read almost one a week. I love how cozy and low angst JQ’s books usually are!  My favorite series so far was the Smythe-Smith quartet. 

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The Bevelstoke series is a collection of novels with secondary characters from other JQ books. I didn’t read the other books first, and I think you can read this without having read What Happened in London, but if you’re a purist, read that first! 

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I very much know what I’m going to get from Julia Quinn. Like, I know her men are kind of alphaholes and at some point are going to do something immensely stupid and I’m going to question why I even read these books. But her heroines are always so delightful that I just vibe with whatever chaos occurs. This book was no different, and Miranda is too good for Nigel, honestly. 

🎧 The audio was really well done, and Jenny Sterlin fit both the cozy moments and the more angsty moments. Definitely pick your favorite format for this one! 

QotD: Have you watched the most recent season of Bridgerton? What author have you read the most books from recently? 

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2 March 1810… Today, I fell in love.

At the age of ten, Miranda Cheever showed no signs of Great Beauty. And even at ten, Miranda learned to accept the expectations society held for her—until the afternoon when Nigel Bevelstoke, the handsome and dashing Viscount Turner, solemnly kissed her hand and promised her that one day she would grow into herself, that one day she would be as beautiful as she already was smart. And even at ten, Miranda knew she would love him forever.

But the years that followed were as cruel to Turner as they were kind to Miranda. She is as intriguing as the viscount boldly predicted on that memorable day—while he is a lonely, bitter man, crushed by a devastating loss. But Miranda has never forgotten the truth she set down on paper all those years earlier—and she will not allow the love that is her destiny to slip lightly through her fingers…