On Julia Quinn and Broken Contracts (or, Why I Don’t Review)

For the longest time, I had only one review up on Goodreads. It was for Julia Quinn’s 2011Just Like Heaven, a two-star review that, in no uncertain terms, shared just how disappointed I was in Quinn’s (and, to be fair, her editor’s) apparent inability to fact-check her previous novel timelines. The book included mentions of Colin, the hero ofRomancing Mister Bridgerton, wherein at the start ofJust Like Heaven he is happily married to Penelope Featherington…yet later on in the narrative, he is...