Starting this 900 page brick that is Riders... let's see what RCB had been up to hihihi

I think Jilly Cooper's stories make a lot of great points about puritanism and hypocrisy around dating and sex in UK society that is still very valid today, but I just cannot get over Rupert being a Tory (though given his position of course he is).

The Rivals writing team really took all the passive casual misogyny in Rivals 1988 directed at Cameron, Maud, Sarah, Valerie, Sharon, Daysee, everyone and pointed all that hater energy at Deidre like Deidre didn't do shit in the book lmao what did Deidre do to the writers???

No but Rivals 1988 is a messy bigotted treasure bc wym Rupert is so emotionally constipated that he can only cry about Taggie by watching Lassie and hugging his dog

Everyone in Rivals is absolutely obsessed with Joanna Lumley and I feel like there's an 80s thing here I'm not getting

Also in the book, Rupert does a whole training regime for months to be at his physical peak to seduce Cameron, like he genuinely thinks about this like he's going to the Olympics again or something the man is unhinged

Any of my mutuals also into the Rutshire Chronicles?