Hugh's injury in the duel, a duel he has always felt responsible for, was severe. The weddings are about to occur, one after another, and Hugh is attending both. The Sum of All Kisses takes place against the events that just finished in the prior books. (So, yeah, you probably shouldn't start with this one, because the backstory of all the Smythe-Smith stories is tied into the various books beginning the Just Like Heaven.) That was the start of A Night Like This, and the replay of the duel and Hugh's injuries begins The Sum of All Kisses. Eventually Hugh figures out a way to stop his father's pursuit of Daniel, and finds Daniel to tell him it's safe to come home. I still feel like there's a hole in that story, and I didn't find the answer in this book, either).īecause Daniel shot Hugh in the leg, and Hugh nearly died, Hugh's father, the duke, swore he'd kill Daniel in revenge for his son's injury, and Daniel fled the country for years. (Their somewhat happy ending was also unsatisfying for me. The hero, Hugh, was wounded (you read this almost as a replay at the start of the book) in a duel with Daniel Smythe-Smith, the hero of the previous book who is now set to marry the former governess for his cousins.
The Sum of All Kisses takes place almost immediately after Just Like Heaven and A Night Like This.
And of course, the conclusion of this book undermines my assertions that the Bridgeton/Smythe-Smith world is safe, because due to one unfettered jackhole, it's not safe for the hero and heroine.
Perhaps it will come in future books, but I wanted it now. I didn't feel as if the hero and heroine really solved their problem, which is hard to discuss without spoiling everything, but I'll do my best to explain, and the ending of the book left them, in my opinion, temporarily and rather precariously safe and happy. What bothered me about this book was the ending: the presence of someone specifically unsafe and terrorizing, and his enduring ability to not be defeated, left me unhappy. There's Bridgertons and Smythe-Smith characters all over the place, and they're all happy and witty and charming, too. I like the familiar familial relationships.Īnd I like that this is one of the safest and warmest Regency worlds in the universe when it comes to past characters. But when I described it as “light,” “funny,” “bubbly,” entertaining with a few surprising really deep moments of emotion, I felt like I was damning the book with faint praise. We're both Julia Quinn fans (Good Book Noise® was made repeatedly) but I found myself describing the book in a way that made it sound as if I didn't like it. She asked me what I was reading and how I liked it. I read this book on my way to Arizona last week, and when I arrived, I had lunch with the RWA chapter president, Amylynn Bright.
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