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...mass marketed paperbacks, reminiscent of Sense and Sensibility, but with snappier comebacks. Still, her themes are universal, and have proved more relevant to younger readers than those of her predecessors. Her heroines are not perfect. Penelope Featherington, the central character in Bridgerton, is delicately described as “plump?? and “shy,” yet she gets the guy in the end. Pottinger says this wallflower tale comes from her high school experience. Amazon customer reviews and reader e-mails attest that it was their high school experience as well, hence her mass appeal...
...monumental success. The book is an unabashed male fantasy, where women’s most—usually, only—distinguishing characteristics are either their legs, their chest or their unattractiveness (it is observed that the receptionists at Bendini, Lambert & Locke “seem kind of plump??). Our hero, Mitch McDeere, cheats on his wife Abby (who, by the way, has “long, brown legs”), never tells her and never receives any kind of reprimand or comeuppance...
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