The Viscount Who Loved Me

I'll get the positives out of the way first.
(Spoilers)
I, like many who read this book, lament the absence of the library scene in the show. Not only did we get the true reasons why Kate hated storms, we also got a genuine emotional connection between the two as Anthony realizes that they both feared mortality. We also got a scene at the end of the book of Anthony explaining to Kate how much he believed that he would die young, much like his father, and it was a fact that it would come to pass. We didn't get those scenes in the show, but I would've liked it all the same.

Now for the negatives...
God was Anthony literally a chauvinistic arse this entire series except when he was sweet to Kate in the handful of times. There were times he kept gripping Kate, dragging her, etc. and I was not comfortable reading it. Was it supposed to be some masculine show of romance? Don't understand, but moving on.

I think having the sister as a ‘rival' of sorts was kind of useless? She barely spoke to Anthony, and their interactions so brief and shallow (I'm sure on purpose) that I wasn't quite sure why she was even there. Yes, it was to get Anthony interested in the Sheffield family in the first place because Edwina is beyond beautiful, but I couldn't understand why Kate kept comparing herself or even convinced herself that Anthony truly desired to marry Edwina when he wasn't even seriously courting her LOL.

Comparing to the TV show...
The TV show, though annoying that they focused WAY too much on the Featheringtons, did a GREAT job in incorporating story elements in a way that was just much more tasteful. They got rid of the almost weird marriage = sex with Husband as a right scene and kept Anthony a charming gentleman until you could literally feel that his patience wore down and he had to do something. The book focuses way too much on lust being the first stage of attraction and then moving on to the emotional bond, whereas the TV show did a great job on having that lust simmer in the background but focus more on each characters' dynamic to build that up as well.

The Writing...
Weird. Bad. I've never read Regency romance novels but I think Cassandra Clare did a much better job with Clockwork Angel. Like it didn't read forced, and it certainly wasn't reminiscent of how authors would write during that age, but you don't necessarily need to unless you've done your research and can fully commit. Which Quinn didn't.