When Maria was younger, she had a ribbon that her dead mother left to her. Also, she discovers a secret of Phillip's that proves that he loves and respects her.
He barely even apologizes, and Maria decides to accept his proposal anyway because her friends thought it was weird that she didn't want to marry a rich marquess who treats her like garbage. When Maria opens a bakery next-door to the lodgings where he is temporarily living until his home renovations are finished, he does the sensible thing and attempts to evict her.Īnd in the whole story, through all of the vapid yimmering and yammering about Phillip's hate boners and Maria's fucking baking process (and the pointless conversations - GOOD GOD, the pointless conversations), Phillip never proves that he isn't an elitist, snobby piece o' crap. A 19-year-old Phillip wisely stopped the disaster in the making, not through imparting them with wisdom or telling Maria that he wanted to eat her pastries (in a sexual way), but by paying them both off just like the villains in 80% of star-crossed lovers stories. Twelve years before the story takes place, Maria attempted to elope with Phillip's younger brother. To make an incredibly long story appropriately short, Phillip's the self-flagellating type of "gentleman" who gets a boner for Maria, the daughter of his family's chef, when they're teenagers and ends up bitching at her to deal with his feelz. Phillip doesn't give a shit as long as he stays waist-deep in fashionable sweaters. Phillip is basically the preppy boyfriend in every 80s movie that ends up royally screwing over the ingenue. She's just trying to sell her pastries or whatever, and Phillip keeps barging in and telling her to go away, like he OWNS THE ENTIRE WORLD or something. Maria is immaterial to this rant because I actually felt sorry for her.
If I had to choose one thing that I found interesting about this book, I would probably decide on The Million Ways That Phillip is a Giant Asshat. It may be able to move ant hills, but that's only because the ants would be annoyed by their incessant yammering and leave. Phillip the snobby marquess and Maria the pastry chef. Who are the assholes in this again? Right. I'm confident that Sarah will agree that this Guhrke Buddy Read was as inspiring as a root canal. WARNING: GIFs, spoilers and a grumpy BAVR!
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