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It's in His Kiss by Julia Quinn

3 reviews

allison87's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

The mystery aspects of this one were fun. The characters' personalities are still mostly copy paste from all her other main characters, but this story was at least a bit more intriguing.

The fact that Hyacinth enjoys reading entertaining but poorly written books (with Lady Danbury) was extremely ironic, as that's exactly what I'm doing. Quinn's writing is not as bad as the author within her own book, but I still see so much more potential for her novels to be so much better. All the framework is there, it's just never explored fully.

I do think, also, that Hyacinth might be on the spectrum. She is a perfectionist with a strong sense of justice, social bluntness and more. If we ever get her season on the Bridgerton series, I hope they explore that rather than take her character in a different direction.

Julia seems to make all her heroes state somewhere along the way that the heroine is "Not like the other girls". I don't think I noticed until this one that she does this every time without fail. I do think Hyacinth was at least more unique than usual (but still mostly copy paste personality wise save a few threads that weren't pulled on hardly enough). But it's an annoying trope to compare women like that. 

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jenkneebee's review against another edition

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

3.75


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lilacsophie's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted

4.5


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