i wasn’t expecting much from this book but i had some hope that it would be decent i really enjoyed the 4th bridgerton book, but this novel was a bit of a slog. phillip was insufferable and i never really saw what eloise seems to see in him, i thought the plot was interesting enough but the pacing was off and there was some very heavy topics that were handled extremely carelessly, both eloise and phillip were meant to be fleshed out but they never really hit the mark