It's In His Kiss by Julia Quinn

So I have finally finished the seventh instalment to the Bridgerton series and I have a lot of thoughts. I mean a lot.

In this book the main focus is the youngest of the Bridgerton clan, Hyacinth. Hyacinth in some ways feels very progressive compared to her previous brothers and sisters in the way that she is not bothered too much about making a match to appease the ton. In some ways this makes it refreshing, as she only believes that she should have someone match her in the same way before accepting any sort of proposal.

However, I feel in some ways this instalment has let her down. For instance, some of the things that she does within this book doesn't always match up with things she did in the previous Bridgerton books. To the point that it feels as though, in order for the author to write in her voice she has had to have some sort of change of personality. This is quite sad as it would have been quite interesting to see how Hyacinth would have reacted to certain situations that she would have done earlier in the series.

One of the other things that seems quite sad is the absence of nearly all of the Bridgertons. I understand that most of them are older and have their own families, but for some, they weren't even mentioned at all. The most that we ever got was a small cameo appearance off Daphne, Antony and Gregory. Sad. Especially when the main premise of this series is based on family and it didn't really feel that throughout most of the book.

The main love interest, Gareth St. Clair seems a little boring apart from the obvious family problems that he came from. The only true interesting part of the story would have to be his relationship with his father. However, even then it felt as though this was rushed very quickly to a resolution. I would have liked to see something more to this relationship and how strained this really is between the two.

I have decided that I am going to continue on however despite these problems, as I would never seem to forgive myself if I didn't finish the last of the series.

RATING: ** (2 STARS)

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