The Sum of All Kisses (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #3)
Julia Quinn
He thinks she's an annoying know-it-all... Hugh Prentice has never had patience for dramatic females, and if Lady Sarah Pleinsworth has ever been acquainted with the words shy or retiring, she's long since tossed them out the window. Besides, a reckless duel has left this brilliant mathematician with a ruined leg, and now he could never court a woman like Sarah, much less dream of marrying her. She thinks he's just plain mad... Sarah has never forgiven Hugh for the duel he fought that nearly destroyed her family. But even if she could find a way to forgive him, it wouldn't matter. She doesn't care that his leg is less than perfect, it's his personality she can't abide. But forced to spend a week in close company they discover that first impressions are not always reliable. And when one kiss leads to two, three, and four, the mathematician may lose count, and the lady may, for the first time, find herself speechless ... New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's enchanting third novel in the Smythe-Smith quartet is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud and tug at your heartstrings in equal measures.
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0 0The thing that I love best about Julia Quinn is that I can almost always rely on her to write romance novels that make me laugh, feel all warm and fuzzy and fall in love with. The Sum of All Kisses was not only no exception but it's definitely one of my favorites now! This is the third in the Smythe-Smith quartet and follows Sarah Prentice, who is definitely the drama queen of the group. Normally I don't really enjoy drama queens but I really liked seeing a heroine who has faults and comes to recognize them through interaction with a hero with faults of his own. I tend to like more complicated characters and it doesn't get much more complicated than Sarah and Hugh. Given that Hugh caused a duel which led to the expulsion of one of Sarah's family from England and that Sarah lets him know how low of a human being this makes him, neither really gets along with the other for at least half the book. But with both trapped at the weddings of their mutual friends, they end up interacting a great deal more than they would have liked. I have to admit that I enjoy a hero and heroine battling more than I enjoy a simple, sweet story and this one has bits of both. The clash between Sarah and Hugh and the humor throughout made the story a lot of fun and ultimately very sweet. I think it's a little darker in tone than a lot of Quinn's books in the way it deals with rougher aspects of life but it's definitely one I'd recommend if you're a romance fan!
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