Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Sum of All Kisses by Julia Quinn

15 reviews

smuttymcbookface's review

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

4.25

This was a sweet book with nice representation and smile-evoking conversations. My only dislike was it got a little bonkers at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, Gun violence, Medical content, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

gemin1reader's review against another edition

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 🥲

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Homophobia, and Kidnapping

angelfireeast24's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy and Alcohol

not_asha01's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Ableism, Alcohol, Bullying, Classism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Outing, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Toxic friendship

haley49's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Homophobia, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

aqtbenz's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia, Violence, and Sexual assault

pinjem's review

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:

Spoiler

enemies 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Homophobia

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, and Sexual harassment

itsgnat's review against another edition

hopeful medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Stalking

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

littlewishling's review

dark emotional 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

4.5

I really enjoyed this. I loved the disability representation but did find the final conflict a bit frustrating and repetitive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

cepbreed's review

lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

This book was kind of insane. I love the Bridgerton universe and all but oh my god??? The plot kept jumping around so quickly I couldn't keep up. Obviously I don't read these books in order, I choose them based on the synopsis, so I should have known what I signed up for, yet every turn I was blindsided by another twist. So intense in every way. Is it just me or was the

pact to kill himself really not that serious? Like why did everyone freak out so much? I get honor is a huge thing, but it was simple. He's his son and the father to his future heirs, he won't attack Daniel because he wouldn't ever want to lose Hugh. It would just be too much trouble.

I liked Sarah a lot, but for some reason I liked Hugh less and less as the book went on. It's not like I hated him in the slightest, he just fell out of my favor. I cannot pinpoint the reason why...

Song: 

• Sparks Fly - Taylor Swift

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Stalking

Moderate: Suicide, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Death