Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Sum of All Kisses by Julia Quinn

6 reviews

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

saeruh's review

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

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

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

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

embla_v's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted

4.5

Sara är strandsatt på bröllop som inte är hennes egna och det värsta är att hon måste spendera tiden med Hugh. Hugh som sköt hennes kusin Daniel och sedan fick honom att fly landet. 

Hugh och Sara hade inte ett så bra första möte men tiden läcker sår, så kanske kan man bort se från det. 

Som vanligt bjuder Julia Quinn på dramatik, underhållning och romans i stora lass. Tredje delen i Smythe-Smith-kvartetten leverar lika mycket underhållning som resten av serien och Brigerton böckerna. Oerhört underhållande, måste läsning för alla Julia Quinn fans. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Ableism, Alcohol, Medical content, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexism