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The Sum of All Kisses by Julia Quinn

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zinn24's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75


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gemin1reader's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted

5.0

I bloody loved this. Sarah and Hugh will forever have a special place in my heart. 

This is literally all I want from a historical romance - enemies to lovers, forced proximity, slow realisation that they’re in love, dances and weddings and aristocratic entertainment and some ridiculous melodrama thrown in too. Hugh is disabled following a duel and as a result is very buttoned up, so I loved seeing Sarah start to look past his injury and his past mistakes to really see him - it was beautiful đŸ„Č

I also just love Sarah’s sisters, Frances, Elizabeth and Harriet, who provide very entertaining comic relief and just read so much like real siblings. 

You probably could read this as a standalone but will enjoy/understand it more if you read the first two in the series. Only one mildly spicy scene! 

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saeruh's review

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2.75

   This did entertain while I was reading it (i love these types of books to turn my brain off) but there was so many problems with it that I felt I couldn’t really over look.    
   Both of the main characters were pretty insufferable, their motivations felt so stupid 75% of the time, and their reasons for hating each other did not work past their very first conversation together so the whole enemies to lovers trope did not pull through on this. It could have been interesting if Sarah was actually made into a huge bitch and Hugh loved her either because of that or in spite of it but instead we got this weird arc where she has to be everyone’s savior and mold herself to what everyone else needs so she can not be “selfish” anymore. Because all this it was hard for me to really root for them ending up together.
    The plot also struggled in this. It had a very similar villain plot to the last book in the series, where there’s this totally evil, two-dimensional bad guy who’s hunting the mmc and who inadvertently hurts the fmc doing so, with even a very similar kidnapping third act! The whole younger sisters banter also felt like a copy of the last book. The scenes between Sarah and Hugh often felt forced and unnatural to me, taking me of the reading element. Weird inclusion of Lady Danbury, her scene added absolutely nothing. There was also just a lot of weird bits of sexual assault, domestic violence, and unnecessary quotes about gender that seemed to be glossed over at the end but whateva.
  I also wish we could have seen Anne and Daniel’s wedding just like Honoria and Marcus’s!

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angelfireeast24's review

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adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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not_asha01's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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haley49's review

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emotional funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5


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pinjem's review

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emotional funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I recommend this book from the bottom of my heart. Not because it's particularly well written, but because of the WTF-feeling the plot in the last chapters caused.
Out of the Smythe-Smith -series, Sarah and Hugh were my favorite couple.
Trope:
Spoilerenemies to friends to lovers, forced proximity

TW:
Spoiler homophobia, ableism, discussions of suicide and rape


Can be read as standalone, even though is the third book in the series. I would actually recommend reading this book before the 2nd book in the series: you probably get more out of the plot.

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itsgnat's review against another edition

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hopeful medium-paced

3.0


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embla_v's review

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted

4.5

Sara Ă€r strandsatt pĂ„ bröllop som inte Ă€r hennes egna och det vĂ€rsta Ă€r att hon mĂ„ste spendera tiden med Hugh. Hugh som sköt hennes kusin Daniel och sedan fick honom att fly landet. 

Hugh och Sara hade inte ett sĂ„ bra första möte men tiden lĂ€cker sĂ„r, sĂ„ kanske kan man bort se frĂ„n det. 

Som vanligt bjuder Julia Quinn pĂ„ dramatik, underhĂ„llning och romans i stora lass. Tredje delen i Smythe-Smith-kvartetten leverar lika mycket underhĂ„llning som resten av serien och Brigerton böckerna. Oerhört underhĂ„llande, mĂ„ste lĂ€sning för alla Julia Quinn fans. 

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jackiepreston's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5


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